slovenly
IPA: sɫˈʌvʌnɫi
adjective
- Having an untidy appearance; unkempt.
- Dirty, unwashed; disorderly.
- Careless or negligent; sloppy.
adverb
- In a slovenly manner.
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Examples of "slovenly" in Sentences
- They were slovenly, slothful.
- He is slovenly and disorganized.
- The beggar is dirty and slovenly.
- Dag style isn't necessarily slovenly.
- Dag style isn't by necessity slovenly.
- Your actions here are nothing short of slovenly.
- It is slovenly, cowardly and worst of all unfair.
- Let people get a consensus on the slovenly character.
- Apokoinu testifies as a rule the slovenly, careless or uneducated speech.
- He is overweight, slovenly and sarcastic but a gifted strategist and designer.
- I was thinking of Mr. Unfunny today before this email convo went down and my exact though of him was that he is "slovenly".
- When my only slightly adapted version turned out to be delicious, but kind of slovenly looking, I went back to the magazine article to check on what the professional ones looked like.
- Speakers expressed concern over the lack of security in the operation of their businesses and criticised the "slovenly" manner in which the police dealt with crime reported by the business community.
- Even in the greatest stress of emotion the power of self-control must never be lost; you must never allow yourself to sing in a slovenly, that is, in a heedless, way, or to exceed your powers, or even to reach their extreme limit.
- If you hunt on public land and are not covered in the latest Mossy Oak garb and stainless steel weaponry from head to toe, you're looked on as some kind of slovenly hillbilly, unworthy to even be in the field let alone shoot anything.
- ‘the loss of a day or a tide,’ in each of these he saw and was revolted by the finger of the sloven; and to spirits intense as his, and immersed in vital undertakings, the slovenly is the dishonest, and wasted time is instantly translated into lives endangered.
- Nothing is more adverse to legal study than what may be called the slovenly habit of mind which is sometimes found even in intelligent people — the habit of mind which knows nothing correctly, which remembers nothing distinctly, which cannot be depended on to state a fact truly, or to carry a point from one case to another.
- A crack for a penknife, the waste of 'six-and-thirty shillings,' 'the loss of a day or a tide,' in each of these he saw and was revolted by the finger of the sloven; and to spirits intense as his, and immersed in vital undertakings, the slovenly is the dishonest, and wasted time is instantly translated into lives endangered.
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