Slovenly
['slʌv(ə)nlɪ] or ['slʌvnli]
Definition
(adv.) a slovenly manner.
Typed by Elinor
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Untidy, unclean, dowdy, not neat.[2]. Disorderly, loose.[3]. Perfunctory, heedless, reckless, careless.
Typist: Stacey
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Loose, negligent, disorderly, untidy, unclean, sluttish, slatternly
ANT:Trim, neat, careful, orderly, tidy, precise
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Examples
- A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish--read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The cook was slovenly, and so was the table, and it had no cloth on it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He noticed instead how her hair looped in slack, slovenly strands over her rather beautiful ears, which were not quite clean. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Don't be slovenly-minded, Betteredge! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I am a slovenly old man, and a good deal of my meat and drink gets splashed about on my clothes. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- When we are not occupied in making machinery, we are (mentally speaking) the most slovenly people in the universe. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- His appearance, as a whole, was not what you would call 'slovenly,' it is best expressed by the word 'careless. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And into these discussions this man came, a clumsy and slovenly figure, barefooted, gathering about him a band of admirers and disciples. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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