Synonyms for inner city
in·ner city

Princeton's WordNet

1. inner citynoun

   the older and more populated and (usually) poorer central section of a city

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1. • Center
   • City

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1. Jacqueline Dace:

   This is not normal. Normally within the surrounded areas of St. Louis city, we may get flooding but it doesn't impact the inner city as much as it has this week.

2. Mark Rank:

   We focus a lot of time on ... inner-city, minority groups living in dilapidated housing as an image of poverty in this country.

3. Von Spakovsky:

   They are using federal housing money intended to improve the bad housing of poor Americans as the lever to force compliance with these new regulations, but that money is most needed in blighted, inner city urban neighborhoods, where there are a large number of African Americans. This federal utopian vision will divert that needed federal money into suburbs where it is not needed, leaving poor Americans living in substandard, terrible housing.

4. Mark Rank:

   One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All. we focus a lot of time on ... inner-city, minority groups living in dilapidated housing as an image of poverty in this country.

5. Jean Guerrero:

   Hell, I was on the Jay Leno Show about the book, and the LA Times couldn't care less, by any standards, I'm a success story, come from the inner city … I defy anybody to follow my father's past: eighth grade drop out, buying a house that cost $600,000 by working two jobs. You could never do it. They don't care about that, but they care about calling me a sellout, and Uncle Tom, and Jean Guerrero and the LA Times should be ashamed of themselves.