SLOVENLY


Meaning of SLOVENLY in English

adjective

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

She was fat, slovenly , and out of shape.

The aide was hired to keep the governor's slovenly brother out of the public eye.

Their landlady was fat and slovenly .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Aldo gave a slovenly salute and left.

It was a way to guarantee that slovenly practices and inefficiencies would become even more firmly entrenched.

On top of that there was the slovenly , almost token, way they had drawn the first covert.

Ridgery Butts was a slovenly , poor village, clay and thatch hovels clustered about its church and windmill.

She was attractive in a plump, slovenly way, with a mass of jet-black curls, dark eyes and brown skin.

Their table manners perfectly reflect the slovenly appearance.

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