slummy
slum
verb
 informaluk /slʌm/ us /slʌm/
 slum it
to spend time in conditions that are much less good than the standard that you are used to: 过穷日子，过简朴的生活
We ran out of money on holiday and had to slum it in cheap hostels.我们假期里把钱都花光了，所以不得不降低标准住进了廉价旅馆。

slum | American Dictionary

slum
noun[ C ]
us/slʌm/
a very poor and crowded area of a city:
She works with children in a rough New Jersey slum.
slum
verb[ I ]
 infmlus/slʌm/-mm-
to visit a slum, or to work doing something that is not suitable:
Did you feel you were slumming by writing this kind of popular fiction?

Examples of slum

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The author mistakes occasional cultural ' slumming ' for emergent elite celebration.
We can take the people out of the slums, but we cannot take the slums out of the people.
No use, for instance, is made of the 1901 census returns which would have exposed the problems of poverty and slums.
The often-cited, inferior quality of 'spec-built' housing (sometimes turning into slums) has been a constant complaint.
However, clear ownership of the land they occupy ensures the absence of the eviction trauma affecting the inner-city slums.
The reader probably needs no introduction to the phenomenon of ' slums ', or informal settlements.
There were too few ' structures which authentically represent the aspirations ' of workers, campesinos, and pobladores in urban slums.
Clearly, the decline and destruction of working-class communities, slums or ethnic neighbourhoods is an international tale, as the research from other places shows.
The great number of children without citizenship in the slums results largely from the fact that children are born of common-law marriages, and women run off, leaving their children behind.
The frequent police interventions caused disputes previously confined to the mill compound to now spill over on to the streets, bazaars and slums of the mill towns.
After all, poverty, overcrowded urban slums, and underdeveloped water supply systems left much of the population open to such disease, and cholera outbreaks took place on a regular basis.
Innumerable and intolerable villas, the slums of the 1940s, stretching far out into the fields - spoiling the countryside, but contributing little to it - bringing ugliness without prosperity.
Therefore, we want an historical perception in dealing with this question of slums.
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