How to Use slumlord in a Sentence

slumlord

noun
  • The worst slumlord in the world.
    — Jesse Zanger, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • That will weed out the frauds, freeloaders and slumlords.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Rico said Rafiq is no slumlord, and in fact lives in the building.
    — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2022
  • The story takes place in a ghetto where a slumlord is evicting poor black people.
    — Michael Sangiacomo, cleveland.com, 18 Feb. 2018
  • There used to be a slumlord bar on the corner called Eileen’s Reno Bar.
    — Andrew Marzoni, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Rashaed is the second slumlord who the city filed a receivership action against.
    — Milwaukee, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Some investors say the scheme turned them into unwitting slumlords.
    — Tim Evans, Indianapolis Star, 12 July 2019
  • He was involved in fighting slumlords and running campaigns to combat drunk driving.
    — Diana Marcum, latimes.com, 10 June 2017
  • This is a bonanza for what has tragically become the city’s largest slumlord.
    — Howard Husock, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2026
  • But for years, a notorious slumlord who controlled the property wouldn't even let residents spruce up their own units.
    — Catherine E. Shoichet and Austin Steele, CNN, 10 Sep. 2022
  • There were no proletarian hearings to denounce a slumlord, who in this case did not really exist.
    — Michael Powell, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
  • While crammed in tiny apartments, Black families struggled with slumlords and poor living conditions.
    — Tanikia Carpenter, Parents, 19 Nov. 2023
  • Whitney is the daughter of a pair of local slumlords (played by Corbin Bernsen and Constance Shulman).
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Better a fighter pilot than a slumlord, a factory hand than a reality TV star.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Whitney, the daughter of slumlords, sees herself as a different breed of real-estate entrepreneur.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Rashaed and the city have long been at odds, as the slumlord has at times failed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in delinquent property taxes and fines for building code violations.
    — Cary Spivak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 May 2018
  • In his first month in office, Mayor Mamdani has shown he is committed to working with tenants to hold our slumlords accountable.
    — Sumathy Kumar, New York Daily News, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Contrary to what Jacobs said about Reno motel owners, Mead hardly fits the definition of a slumlord.
    — David Calvert, ProPublica, 12 Nov. 2021
  • Rashaed is the second major Milwaukee slumlord to lose control of his properties since 2016.
    — Cary Spivak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Require inspections of rental units to address unhealthy housing, rather than relying on tenants to complain and face possible eviction by slumlords.
    — Katherine Sayre, NOLA.com, 4 May 2018
  • Now his company has become a slumlord of sorts throughout Southern California.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, latimes.com, 10 June 2017
  • In 2003, lawmakers approved a measure that opponents, only somewhat in jest, referred to as a slumlord protection act.
    — Alan Judd, ajc, 19 June 2022
  • He was also accused of being a slumlord and has faced multiple lawsuits from tenants in his many Southern California properties.
    — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Two years ago, the Journal Sentinel disclosed the practice in a series of stories that showed various methods that landlords and slumlords used to game the system and avoid paying their fines.
    — Cary Spivak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Jan. 2018
  • But as Max points out in his summation, Dalton also made those millions as a slumlord, charging black people more and refusing to rent to them beyond their segregated enclave.
    — Gary Younge, The New York Review of Books, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Properties his companies managed racked up code violations, turning unsuspecting out-of-state investors into slumlords.
    — Alexandria Burris, IndyStar, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Victor finds work as a rent collector for a Jewish slumlord, Peter Feldman, the aforementioned Holocaust survivor.
    — Zachary Lazar, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • For decades, out-of-state property investors and slumlords have been able to hide their identities behind LLCs in particular, and shirk responsibility for problems at their rentals.
    — Rebecca Lurye, courant.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • The city's efforts were delayed by numerous legal maneuvers by Rashaed and Halbrooks, who as an assistant city attorney prosecuted slumlords and problem landlords.
    — Cary Spivak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2018
  • There’s the notorious advertisement labeling primary opponent Scott Wagner a deadbeat dad and a slumlord.
    — Julian Routh, Philly.com, 7 May 2018

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