0 (of an area, especially in a city) very poor and crowded:
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.
The place was scrupulously clean; everything was sweet, and there was none of that horrible slummy smell which one finds in slums in this country.
It is a very strange thing about slumdom, that the more slummy they are the more beautiful are the names.
It is no good building a wonderful structure right at the top if down below there are slummy offices.
The reason was that the original residents felt that slummy conditions would develop in the street.
It cannot be right to build beautiful new houses and to leave slummy factories in the middle of them.
