slatternly

How To Use slatternly In A Sentence

• She is a slatternly female.
• Now I wonder how he sees my slatternly ways given his own promptness.
• It’s not that they’re not SF writers; they’re just not slutty, slatternly Sci-Fi hacks in fishnet tights. In The Ghetto
• They are generally called blue-stockings, are described as slatternly in their dress and always as having their fingertips dabbled with ink. The Five of Hearts
• Housework in the 1950s was also a big deal, and I say that not with the slatternly view that not all dirt is a bad thing, but rather in admiration.
• From time to time, as they hurried on, they encountered, and made wide detours to escape contact with knots of wayfarers -- men debased and begrimed, with dreary and slatternly women, arm in arm, zigzaging widely across the sidewalks, chorusing with sodden voices the burden of some popularized ballad. The Black Bag
• Vain, shallow and slatternly, it is not what our grandfathers died for.
• Playing the malevolent, abrasive junkie single mother of a missing kidnap victim, a slatternly, slack-jawed racist, Ryan adopted a drunkard's waxen pallor, honked up the full braying working-class Boston accent and, in those seven minutes, ran a gamut of emotions, from sullen resentment to inappropriate levity and a final descent into abject sobbing – a magnificent shipwreck of a performance. Amy Ryan: the Isabelle Huppert of Hollywood
• As Sylvie's grandmother would say (as she did, indeed, frequently say), Sylvie is slovenly, slatternly.
• A cheerful but slatternly Indian woman set before me a thin soup containing a piece of squash and a square of boiled beef, and eight hot corn tortillas of the size and shape of our pancakes, or _gkebis_, the Arab bread, which it outdid in toughness and total absence of taste. Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond