Difference between sluttishness and sluttish
Definitions
noun
- in the manner of a slattern
Examples
Ultimately, however, the poet objects far less to her supposedly natural feminine sluttishness than to her apparently unnatural intellectual pursuits: ‘Women grown intellectual grow dull, / And lose the mother wit of natural trull’.
chapelle," seek for admission at the establishment of mother S---, who, after employing them for a time in various menial offices, and making them pluck off their eyebrows hair by hair, generally dismisses them on the plea of sluttishness; whereupon they return to their papas to eat the bread of the country, with the comfortable prospect of eating it still in the shape of a pension after their sires are dead.
Definitions
adjective
- characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women
- casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior
Examples
They lived sluttishly in poor houses, where they eat a great deal of beef and mutton, and drank good ale in a brown mazard; and their very kings were but a sort of farmers.
The sluttish,drunken and loutish way women behave in Britain was a shock to me when I first came here.
Luckie Mucklebackit and her family, an appearance of ease, plenty, and comfort, that seemed to warrant their old sluttish proverb, ` ` The clartier the cosier. '
