crime-ridden

Adjective

Meaning

crime-ridden (comparative more crime-ridden, superlative most crime-ridden)

dominated or plagued by crime.
one of the most crime-ridden neighbourhoods of the city

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

By the 1970s, the region had become one of the most blighted and crime-ridden in the city, although gentrification in the area is revitalizing certain sections. Source: Internet

Marlene Alfonso, who goes by “Toothless Cindy,” accepts coins from commuters as she sings about Venezuelan migrants’ lives in the crowded and crime-ridden public bus system in Bogota, Colombia. Source: Internet

I grew up in one of the poorest, most violent, and crime-ridden villages in Guyana and to add to this, I was a school dropout and illiterate. Source: Internet

But beware the mean streets of Bemidji, Minnesota's most crime-ridden city (relatively speaking). Source: Internet

Nearly half of the city’s 205 shootings played out across 10 historically crime-ridden precincts during the bloodiest June on record since 1996, NYPD stats show. Source: Internet

They are all long weeks in this crime-ridden 47.2 neighborhood as we’re bottoming out on this reverse bell-curve of happiness. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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