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UK
/slˈʌvənli/
]
[ US /ˈsɫəvənɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈsɫəvənɫi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt
slovenly appearance
frowzy white hair
filled the door with her frowzy bulk
How To Use slovenly In A Sentence
- Friars Cowle, which was so snottie and greazie, that good store of kitchin stuffe might have beene boiled out of it; as also a foule slovenly Trusse or halfe doublet, all baudied with bowsing, fat greazie lubberly sweating, and other drudgeries in the Convent The Decameron
- On top of which the actress is awful, unwatchable, the most slovenly girl to appear on the screen in a long, long time.
- Her sober, kindly capableness evolved from the slovenly little house and the untended children, from the dusty rooms and neglected kitchen the kind of order and neatness which had been plain to see in Robin's more fortune-favoured apartment. Robin
- But by gum, I just can't bear the notion of some Joe Lunchpail and his slovenly wife trundling clumsily through my private slaughterhouse, or trying on my world-renowned collection of 16th century undergarments.
- Looking down at his shoe so enraged the man that he began to curse the Romans for their slovenly public habits. 52449_CLARA
- You tend to get a little slovenly without the pressure of public appearance.
- Looking down at his shoe so enraged the man that he began to curse the Romans for their slovenly public habits. 52449_CLARA
- She's slovenly and uninhibited; he's anal and reserved.
- Before all that, Simon had been obliged to reason with Matthau, who initially insisted that he wanted to play the impossibly particular Felix rather than the slovenly Oscar because, he said, that would involve real acting.
- She has a couzin who has had four Husbands and is beginning on a fifth, although not pretty and very slovenly, but with a mass of red hair. Bab: A Sub-Deb