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  • adjective superlative form of slummy: most slummy.

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Examples

  • 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

  • Of nine thousand children from the slummiest quarters of that city who had gone through the Golden Gate Association’s kindergartens, just one was found to have got into jail.

    IX. The Genesis of the Gang 1902

  • Of nine thousand children from the slummiest quarters of that city who had gone through the Golden Gate

    The Battle with the Slum 1881

  • The slummiest of slums, Fern's is a dive bar for the punk-rock crowd.

    unknown title 2009

  • 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.

    GreenCine Daily: Film Comment. May/June 07. 2007

  • 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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