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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
slummy

1873, from slum (n.) + -y (2). Related: Slummily; slumminess.

Wiktionary
slummy

a. Like a slum; run-down, dirty, decrepit.

WordNet
slummy

adj. (of housing or residential areas) indicative of poverty; "a slummy part of town"; "slum conditions"

Usage examples of "slummy".

Ah dinnae like the idea ay cairryin a blade, no really, but every cunt kens these slummy wankers cairry knives.

The neighbors, wearing bathrobes and slippers, crowd the hallway of the slummy tenement.

What good was it to kiss a girl on the Ferris wheel when you were eleven if you were to open the paper eleven years later and learn that she had burned to death in a slummy little house on a shimmy little dead-end street?

Go into any autobar in the slummiest part of town and say anything against the government and you'll have a fight on your hands.