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.
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.
To confine (a specified group of people) to a ghetto.
Superfluous; needless.
Barren; desert.
Rejected as being defective; eliminated as being worthless; produced in excess.
Useless and contemptible.
Dismal; gloomy; cheerless.
Unfortunate; disappointing.
A place that has been laid waste or destroyed.
A cause of action which may be brought by the owner of a future interest in property against the current owner of that property to prevent the current owner from degrading the value or character of the property, either intentionally or through neglect.
Destruction or devastation caused by war or natural disasters; see "to lay waste".
A disused mine or part of one.
Excrement or urine.
Gradual loss or decay.
Material derived by mechanical and chemical erosion from the land, carried by streams to the sea.
The part of the land of a manor (of whatever size) not used for cultivation or grazing, nowadays treated as common land.
The action or progress of wasting; extravagant consumption or ineffectual use.
Excess of material, useless by-products, or damaged, unsaleable products; garbage; rubbish.
A vast expanse of water.
A large tract of uncultivated land.
A wasteland; an uninhabited desolate region; a wilderness or desert.
Large abundance of something, specifically without it being used.
A decaying of the body by disease; atrophy; wasting away.
To devastate; to destroy.
To kill; to murder.
To gradually lose weight, weaken, become frail.
To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly.
To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to deteriorate; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value etc. gradually.
To damage, impair, or injure (an estate, etc.) voluntarily, or by allowing the buildings, fences, etc., to fall into decay.