slum-ridden

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.10 in modern English

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"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."

From slum + -ridden.

more slum-ridden (comparative) most slum-ridden (superlative) slumridden (alternative)

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