blightscape
Noun
A vulgar, decaying, or ruined place.
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The film moves Barker's decaying British urban blightscape to an even grungier Chicago and the Cabrini-Green wasteland.
The cracked flagstone path leads to the only house in sight, a large, ramshackle tarpaper-shingled abomination straight out of an Appalachian blightscape.
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We'd emerge from the subterranean station into Forty-second Street's urban blightscape: the tawdry glow of crumbling old theaters; noisy-clanging-beeping pinball arcades; greasy luncheonettes; and cheap-looking hookers.
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blightscapes