Existing in or sunk to a low condition, position, or state; contemptible, despicable, miserable.
Complete; downright; utter.
Of a person: cast down in hope or spirit; showing utter helplessness, hopelessness, or resignation; also, grovelling; ingratiating; servile.
Lower than nearby areas; low-lying.
A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; an oppressed person; an outcast; also, such people as a class.
Unseemly and indecorous or of low quality; cheap; shabby, crude.
Having been raised in a ghetto in the United States.
Characteristic of the style, speech, or behavior of residents of a predominantly black or other ghetto in the United States.
Of or relating to a ghetto or to ghettos in general.
To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
An (often walled) area of a city in which Jews are concentrated by force and law. (Used particularly of areas in medieval Italy and in Nazi-controlled Europe.)
An area in which people who are distinguished by sharing something other than ethnicity concentrate or are concentrated.
An (often impoverished) area of a city inhabited predominantly by members of a specific nationality, ethnicity, or race.
An isolated, self-contained, segregated subsection, area or field of interest; often of minority or specialist interest.