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Arnow, Harriette — ▪ American author née Harriette Louisa Simpson born July 7, 1908, Bronston, Kentucky, U.S. died March 22, 1986, Ann Arbor, Michigan American novelist, social historian, short story writer, and essayist, known primarily for the novel The… … Universalium
shabby — Synonyms and related words: Mickey Mouse, NG, abandoned, abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, bare, base, battered, beastly, beat up, bedraggled, beggarly, beneath contempt, blameworthy, blowzy, broken down, brutal, budget, careless,… … Moby Thesaurus
slummy — Synonyms and related words: battered, beat up, beaten up, broken down, decrepit, derelict, dilapidated, in ruins, ramshackle, ruined, ruinous, run down, shabby, slumlike, sordid, squalid, tottery, tumbledown, wretched … Moby Thesaurus
sordid — Synonyms and related words: a hog for, abased, abominable, acquisitive, all devouring, arrant, atrocious, avaricious, avid, awful, base, beastly, beat up, bedraggled, beneath contempt, black, blameworthy, blowsy, blowzy, bottomless, brutal,… … Moby Thesaurus
squalid — Synonyms and related words: abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beat up, bedraggled, beggarly, beneath contempt, black, blameworthy, blowzy, broken down, brutal, careless, cheesy, chintzy, contemptible, crummy, debased,… … Moby Thesaurus
wretched — Synonyms and related words: abject, abominable, adverse, affecting, afflicted, afflictive, antagonistic, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt, bitter, blameworthy, bleak, brutal, cheap, cheerless, cheesy,… … Moby Thesaurus
slum — n. & v. n. 1 an overcrowded and squalid back street, district, etc., usu. in a city and inhabited by very poor people. 2 a house or building unfit for human habitation. v.intr. (slummed, slumming) 1 live in slumlike conditions. 2 go about the… … Useful english dictionary
