[
US
/ˈsɫəm/
]
[ UK /slˈʌm/ ]
[ UK /slˈʌm/ ]
NOUN
- a district of a city marked by poverty and inferior living conditions
VERB
-
spend time at a lower socio-economic level than one's own, motivated by curiosity or desire for adventure; usage considered condescending and insensitive
attending a motion picture show by the upper class was considered sluming in the early 20th century
How To Use slum In A Sentence
- In 2005, the Mugabe government launched what it called a slum clearance scheme, that bulldozed major shantytowns, brutally displacing hundreds of thousands of people. CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2007
- She slumped down in her chair and tried to absorb this violent, absurd disruption to her well-ordered life. LADY BE GOOD
- That call my slumbering life to wake to happy things. A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul
- It had been always understood, by watchful politicians, that the Repeal agitation slumbered only until the reinstalment of a Conservative administration. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
- He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots. CHAPTER XV
- The slump in prices was largely attributed to inferior quality tea being produced by various India gardens.
- Finally, dissatisfaction with housing conditions produced schemes for slum clearance or improvement and substantial house-building programmes.
- One minister counseled his people, let us do nothing to rekindle the slumbering fires of prejudice between the two races. A Renegade History of the United States
- The move "bedward" was almost simultaneous and the drift toward slumberland not far behind. Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation
- Teddington slumped to a 151 run defeat in one of their poorest performances of the season against Ealing on Saturday.