The movie is a harrowing depiction of life in an urban slum.
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Slum
/slʌm/
Synonyms for "slum" (81 found)
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We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.
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The land became a slum.
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Tom lives in a slum.
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