(a.) Decayed; fallen into partial ruin; injured by bad usage or neglect.
Example Sentences:
(1) Children still received an education, it was just that increasing numbers did so in damp and dilapidated buildings.
(2) In a dilapidated cafe in north Baghdad under a TV set blasting patriotic songs in support of Iraq's embattled prime minister, a young man looked grave.
(3) Picture Detroit today and the images that probably come to mind are of " ruin porn " (the now infamous term for beautifully shot photos of dilapidated buildings); urban exploring (the new craze of creeping around abandoned complexes as seen in Jim Jarmusch's new film Only Lovers Left Alive ) and foreclosure frenzy (there are now nearly 80,000 empty homes to be torn down or fixed up in Motor City).
(4) It was shot on location in Hollywood, with the real Jim Henson Studios standing in for the dilapidated Muppet Studios; Miss Piggy's costumes are all designer, as any star of her stature might expect, and include a pair of trotter-sized Louboutins.
(5) At least 74 people have been arrested, including Abarca and his wife, who were found Tuesday hiding in a dilapidated home in a rough section of Mexico City.
(6) For her, “Sambo” recalls the blubber-lipped, blue-black caricatures of African American children known as piccaninnies , perched on dilapidated porches, half-clothed and dusty, and as happy in squalor and ignorance as they can be.
(7) The place smells like wet cigarettes, and while the dilapidated building does have its charm, it feels as old as the games it houses.
(8) Even in its dilapidated state, it still received more than 140,000 visitors last year.
(9) Since the second world war, the area’s towering Georgian terraces, subdivided and dilapidated, had first been a semi-slum of immigrants and bad landlords, then a counterculture stronghold for squatters and hippies and punks.
(10) Perhaps this tragedy causes us to ask some tough questions about how we can permit so many of our children to languish in poverty, or attend dilapidated schools, or grow up without prospects for a job or for a career.
(11) As well as dilapidated equipment, the country's military and police suffered a serious problem of infiltration, with some officers helping the separatists.
(12) Until recently, most self-respecting rock bohemians would stay at the dilapidated but charming Chelsea, where they would rejoice in being shouted at by the manager for daring to ask to have the room where Sid Vicious killed Nancy Spungen.
(13) The horizon is fringed with the tall trees of the Ghanaian rainforest, but for Huang, this dilapidated shelter is his only shade from the sweltering tropical sun.
(14) The shells of dilapidated factories look out over an urban landscape that has been likened to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina – except Detroit's disaster was man-made and took decades to unfold.
(15) Thirty-two men and a boy now held at an immigration detention centre near Sri Lanka's capital, Colombo, were rescued last Saturday when their dilapidated wooden vessel began sinking while making a perilous journey to Malaysia.
(16) Close up, the greenhouses lie derelict and trees rampage through their dilapidated timber frames.
(17) A couple of years ago a dilapidated little cinema called Shama was blown up in Peshawar.
(18) But we have already seen that Kane is dead and his Florida folly slowly turning into a dilapidated ruin.
(19) For example, the money could go towards improving the dilapidated Fairfield Halls theatre and concert venue.
(20) • Hrunalaug – a hot pot with a dilapidated changing hut in a grassy dell a few kilometres from Flúdir.
Slum
Definition:
(n.) A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives.
(n.) Same as Slimes.
Example Sentences:
(1) This week, Umande broke ground on the first of a series of toilet block biocentres in a slum in Kisumu, near Lake Victoria.
(2) Age specific prevalence rates of leprosy after examining more than 80% of population from these colonies are compared with data derived from normal slums situated elsewhere in the city.
(3) The project is divided into units which cover a community block either in a rural or tribal village area or an urban slum.
(4) In others, Delhi’s slum-dwellers were left unacknowledged.
(5) After visiting the H-blocks, the Catholic archbishop Cardinal Tomás Ó Fiaich compared the conditions to "the sewer pipes in the slums of Calcutta".
(6) St Pancras himself, of whom precious little is known, is buried in Rome, a long way from the charred and soiled remains of the 19th-century slums of Agar Town that were demolished to make way for the Midland Railway's steamy entrance into London.
(7) Meanwhile, millions of Ugandans suffer from malnutrition, slum housing, illiteracy, preventable diseases and a lack of clean drinking water.
(8) How dare this unqualified mother of three challenge RGCB orthodoxy or attack the hypocrisy of those who condemned viable neighbourhoods as slums in order to build their own golden city from which anyone with choice escaped?
(9) I managed to raise eight grand.” Les Rencontres d'Arles 2016 review – twin towers and sub-Saharan slums Read more Soon, he was running his own independent techno label, Dead Elvis Records, and organising Deaf, an annual electronic music and arts festival in Dublin.
(10) A total of 106 rodents sera from slum Wat Phai Ton and slum Klong Toey were examined by immunofluorescent antibody assay during May to August 1990.
(11) The family lived near the Cité Soleil slum where hundreds, possibly thousands, have been stricken.
(12) There are families from Kutubdia who were once rich, with land and cows and boats, and now are living in slums and are beggars.
(13) It’s not enough at all,” said Araceli Belaez, 40, lining up for groceries at a supermarket in the Caracas slum of Catia.
(14) It was built by respecting highly restrictive norms that regulate construction activity in slums and for less than the average cost of construction in the area.
(15) The slums will be easier to shift out than the formal leaseholders, according to sources on the panel.
(16) At any rate, in 1984 the Israelis discovered an arms cache in the mosque he had built in the Jaurat slum where he now lived.
(17) Trained nutritionists visited 5 slum centers within 48 hours of the completion of the monthly weighing of the children.
(18) Point prevalence of 'High Risk' factors was assessed in 450 mothers of reproductive age group residing in two urban slum communities.
(19) A community-based family planning operations research project was undertaken in selected low income communities of Rio de Janeiro; this activity represented the 1st attempt to obtain contraceptive prevalence data in fanelos (slums) of Rio.
(20) Another member of her circle, the rapacious slum landlord Peter Rachman, had himself become a symbol of the greed and materialism of the affluent society, adding more spice to the mix.