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- adjective
superlative form ofslummy : mostslummy .
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Examples
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But the show was stolen by the "Mexican American" guests who lambasted the federal government and staged a rival Raza Unida Conference in El Paso's slummiest barrio, where the banners read, "Mañana is here!"
A Special Supplement: The Chicanos Womack, John 1972
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Of nine thousand children from the slummiest quarters of that city who had gone through the Golden Gate Associations kindergartens, just one was found to have got into jail.
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Of nine thousand children from the slummiest quarters of that city who had gone through the Golden Gate
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The slummiest of slums, Fern's is a dive bar for the punk-rock crowd.
unknown title 2009
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Chris Chang calls for a distributor for Hong Sang-soo's Woman on the Beach and reviews the "exquisitely bleak yet thoroughly transcendent" Radio On. "[W] ith modern Malaysian cinema so stuck on Tsai [Ming-liang], how timely it is that this prodigal son should at last come home with I Don't Want to Sleep Alone, his latest meditation on fecal urban anomie and feverish 'happy endings,' set among the slummiest side-streets and half-finished architectural skeletons of Malaysia's monsoon-moist first city, Kuala Lumpur," writes Chuck Stephens.
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You can imagine my heartbreak then when I discovered that Mr. Curtis lives, not in the heart of Michigan’s slummiest town like Michael Moore, but in Windsor, Ontario instead.
Archive 2006-04-01 fusenumber8 2006
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