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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
/ ˈslʌmˌlɔːd /
noun
- informal.an absentee landlord of slum property, esp one who profiteers
Example Sentences
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.
The tenants accused Aslanian of being a slumlord, harrassing and threatening them in his attempts to empty the apartments.
Whitney is the heiress to her parents’ slumlord fortune, a fact she pretends to distance herself from but can’t quite.
Whitney sees it as a brand building exercise, a chance to show how good she is, a way of assuaging her guilt over her slumlord parents’ financial support.
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