Slatternly is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SLATTERNLY in dictionary:

VERB:
• In a slatternly manner.
ADJECTIVE:
• like a slattern
• (of a woman or her appearance) dirty and untidy
• Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty.
• characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• untidy and dirty through habitual neglect; careless, disorderly

Words related to SLATTERNLY

slattern8 slatternliest13 slatternlier12

How to use SLATTERNLY in a sentence

• No man can continue to love a woman who is slatternly.
• Kate Kebble, a slatternly girl of sixteen, helped her mother do the work and waited on the table.
• A knock at the door brought out a slatternly looking colored woman.
• Women careless in their household and slatternly in their dress grew more careful in the keeping of their homes and the arrangement of their attire.
• Perhaps, too, his foolish, slatternly wife bore part of the blame, for his home had always been comfortless, and such companionship must, in the long-run, tell on a man.
• Turpin, who was ready at any moment to relapse into her old slatternly ways.
• The slatternly general servant reappeared with the chops and tinned salmon he had asked Madam Gadow to prepare for them.
• Throughout, electricity took the place of candles and slatternly hearth-fires.
• Slatternly women gossip in groups about the doorways.
• What flashes of noblest thought, clothed in the most apt and well-fitting words, on the same page with the most slatternly and down-at- the-heel English.
• Enoch paced the floor of the Larson while a slatternly maid went in search of Diana.
• A large slatternly woman stood in the back doorway, a woman who might possibly have been a pretty girl once but whose passing charms had long been utterly sponged out.
• Like many other women of the middle class, she had sunk since her marriage from the trim, pretty girl to the somewhat slatternly matron.
• Behind him hovered a young woman, who must have been refined and beautiful once, but who now was slatternly, and two children.
• The slatternly, benevolent girl widened her mouth still further in a smile still more cordial, and led him to the drawing-room.
• He had seen a slatternly provincial town, large and picturesque certainly, but with small sense of form or dignity.
• She scorned the slatternly, stupid little crowd for its lack of manners.
• A slatternly, miserable, little general servant opened it.
• They clung together dazed, women with slatternly dresses, children with peaked faces, men unhappy and unshaven.
• A stout, slatternly woman appeared, and uttered a sharp exclamation at sight of her visitor.

Similar words containing SLATTERN without suffix ly

slattern8 slatterns9 slatternlier12 slatternliest13 slatternliness14 slatternlinesse15 slatternlinesses16

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