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slum| Area of poor-quality housing. Slums are typically found in parts of the inner city in rich countries and in older parts of cities in poor countries. |
| Slum housing is usually densely populated, in a bad state of repair, and has inadequate services (poor sanitation, for example). Its occupants are often poor with low rates of literacy. |
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| Mrs Jarley was not proof against the poet's insinuating manner, and Mr Slum entered the order in a small note-book as a three-and-sixpenny one. A gipsy encampment to-day is little more than a moving slum, a scab of squalor on the fair face of the countryside. Without arguing this matter of my general reputation, accepting it at its current face value, let me add that I have indeed lived life in a very rough school and have seen more than the average man's share of inhumanity and cruelty, from the forecastle and the prison, the slum and the desert, the execution-chamber and the lazar-house, to the battlefield and the military hospital. |