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slumlord
[ sluhm-lawrd ]
noun
- a landlord who owns slum buildings, especially one who fails to maintain or improve the buildings and charges tenants exorbitant rents.
slumlord
/ 藞蝉濒蕦尘藢濒蓴藧诲 /
noun
- informal.an absentee landlord of slum property, esp one who profiteers
Example Sentences
It turned out that the story was made up by the slumlord who owned the building to excuse his neglect and some of the locals who had pumped up the story later recanted.
When a mentally disturbed neighbor sets herself on fire and a slumlord tries to extort money from them, the family gets tangled in the corruption that keeps a stranglehold on the slum鈥檚 inhabitants.
He鈥檚 conniving, manipulative and has somehow incredibly managed to survive flying on the seat of some very thin pants since his father sent him out to collect rent as a budding slumlord.
He is a slumlord collecting rent from poor tenants for his abusive father.
"In Colorado, they're so crazy they're taking over sections of the state," he falsely claimed, citing a bogus viral story about Venezuelan gangs taking over an apartment complex in Aurora, a claim denied by police, the city's Republican mayor and residents, who say the claim was spread by a slumlord to deflect blame for poor conditions at their property.
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