slum-ridden
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]slum-ridden (comparative more slum-ridden, superlative most slum-ridden)
- (of a populated area) Full of slums.
- 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 22:
- Pearson's first idea, set out in 1839, was for a railway in a wide, covered-over cutting. It would connect a giant half-underground station at Farringdon with stations all over England. [...] The appeal of Farringdon was that this slum-ridden area was being redeveloped by Pearson's new employers, the Corporation of London.