blightscape

English

Etymology

blight +‎ -scape

Noun

blightscape (plural blightscapes)

1. A vulgar, decaying, or ruined place.
   • 1993, Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, editors, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection, page lxxix:

     The film moves Barker's decaying British urban blightscape to an even grungier Chicago and the Cabrini-Green wasteland.

   • 2008, Robert N. Chan, Zahirah Abdulah, Bad Memory, page 57:

     The cracked flagstone path leads to the only house in sight, a large, ramshackle tarpaper-shingled abomination straight out of an Appalachian blightscape.

   • 2009, Nelson George, City Kid, unnumbered page:

     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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:blightscape.