Related Words for slum

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poor
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Noun
ghetto
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Noun
squalor
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Noun
favela
x/x
Noun
shanty
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Noun
tenement
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Noun
hovels
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Noun
squatter
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Noun, Adjective
squalid
/x
Adjective
barrio
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Noun
impoverished
x/x
Adjective
urban
/x
Name, Adjective
poverty
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Noun
hellhole
/x
Noun
dilapidated
x/xxx
Adjective
grimy
/x
Adjective
shacks
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Noun
metropolis
x/xx
Noun
wasteland
/x
Noun
suburban
x/x
Adjective
orphanage
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Noun
neighborhood
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Noun
ramshackle
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Adjective
underclass
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Noun
homeless
/x
Noun
filthy
/x
Adjective
blighted
/x
Adjective, Verb
jungle
/x
Noun
city
/x
Noun
dingy
/x
Adjective
orphan
/x
Noun
wretched
/x
Adjective
posh
/
Adjective
beggar
/x
Noun
street
/
Noun
sink
/
Noun
sprawl
/
Noun
poorhouse
/x
Noun
project
/x
Noun
heap
/
Noun
urban sprawl
/x/
Name, Name
hood
/
Noun
developments
x/xx
Noun
dwelling
/x
Noun, Verb
colony
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Noun
big house
//
Name, Name
housing
/x
Noun
community
x/xx
Noun
ruin
/x
Noun
longhouse
/x
Noun
dormitory
/xxx
Noun
living quarters
/x/x
Phrase, Noun
doghouse
/x
Noun
shoebox
/x
Noun
sweatshop
/x
Noun
estate
x/
Noun
midden
/x
Noun
village
/x
Noun
habitation
xx/x
Noun
rookery
/xx
Noun
outskirts
/x
Noun
crib
/
Noun
rooming house
/x/
Phrase, Noun
place
/
Noun
junkyard
/x
Noun
slip
/
Noun
habitat
/xx
Noun
precinct
/x
Noun
apartment building
x/x/x
Phrase, Noun
settlement
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Noun
quartier
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Noun
sliver
/x
Noun
drum
/
Noun
homestead
/x
Noun
workhouse
/x
Noun
house of ill repute
///x/
Phrase, Noun
festering
/xx
Verb
rainwater
/xx
Noun
upgrading
x/x
Verb
dwellers
/x
Noun
fetid
/x
Adjective
disorganized
x/xx
Verb, Adjective
overcrowded
/xxx
Adjective
stinking
/x
Adjective
notorious
x/xx
Adjective
roberts
/x
Name
congested
x/x
Adjective
redevelopment
xx/xx
Noun
teeming
/x
Verb
foggy
/x
Adjective
degenerated
x/xxx
Verb
crowded
/x
Adjective
havana
x/x
Name
harlem
/x
Name
sordid
/x
Adjective
filth
/
Noun
decaying
x/x
Verb
clearance
/x
Noun
worst
/
Adjective
coast
/
Noun
italian
x/x
Adjective
demolished
x/x
Verb
spectacle
/xx
Noun
calcutta
x/x
Name
infamous
/xx
Adjective
peruvian
x/xx
Adjective
fringe
/
Noun
residents
/xx
Noun
huts
/
Noun
revisited
x/xx
Verb
desolate
/xx
Adjective
factory
/xx
Noun
bombay
x/
Name
veritable
/xxx
Adjective
vile
/
Adjective
delhi
/x
Name
populated
/xxx
Verb
deteriorated
x/xxxx
Verb
inhabited
x/xx
Verb
dreary
/x
Adjective
brazilian
x/x
Adjective
horrors
/x
Noun
amish
/x
Adjective, Name
black
/
Adjective, Name, Verb
boardinghouse
/xx
Noun
bog
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
bum
/
Noun, Verb, Adjective
class
/
Noun, Adjective, Verb
dirty
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Verb
disadvantaged
xx/x
Adjective
down
/
Adverb, Adjective, Verb, Noun
dump
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Noun, Verb
gross
/
Adjective, Name, Verb
hill
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Noun, Verb
indiscriminate
xx/xx
Adjective
lord
/
Noun, Verb
mess
/
Noun, Verb
new york
//
Name, Name
parish
/x
Noun, Verb
parishes
/xx
Noun
prison
/x
Noun, Verb
random
/x
Adjective, Noun
residential
xx/x
Adjective, Noun
rich
/
Adjective, Noun, Verb
rural
/x
Adjective, Noun
scum
/
Noun, Verb
sewer
/x
Noun, Verb
skid row
//
Phrase, Noun
wealth
/
Noun
wildcat
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
pidgin
/x
Noun
maypole
/x
Noun, Verb
girly
/x
Adjective, Noun
oh
/
Noun, Verb
butt
/
Noun, Verb
dicky
/x
Name, Adjective
sfa
x
Name
closet
/x
Noun, Adjective, Verb
stonewall
/x
Name, Verb, Adjective
bundle
/x
Noun, Verb