slummy
adjective uk/ˈslʌm.i/ us/ˈslʌm.i/
(城市里)贫民区的
(of an area, especially in a city) very poor and crowded
She found herself in a slummy back street. 她意识到自己身处贫民区偏僻的后巷里。
In the 1950s, he took photographs of New York that portrayed the city as slummy, trashy, and damaged. 他在20世纪50年代拍摄的照片将纽约描绘为一个贫瘠、破旧和饱受破坏的城市。
See: slum
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- He wanted to revive the city's remaining three kilometres of filthy, slummy wasteland.
- Her friends thought she was nuts to buy an empty building on a slummy street in Portland.
- She died in a slummy room with his picture on the wall.