Slovenly is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SLOVENLY in dictionary:

VERB:
• a slovenly manner.
ADVERB:
• in a slovenly manner
ADJECTIVE:
• habitually untidy or unclean
• (especially of a person or their appearance) untidy and dirty
• (especially of a person or action) careless; excessively casual
• dirty or untidy
• negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt

Words related to SLOVENLY

slattery11 slovenlier13 slovenliest14 slovenliness15

How to use SLOVENLY in a sentence

• The trail was red now, and the clean stride of the great beast had grown short and slovenly.
• Whether his habits be good or bad, efficient or slovenly, therefore, depends largely on the nature of the examples he has to follow.
• His language was neat, well chosen, and uttered without impediment or slovenly repetition.
• The slovenly old wife was furious over the flight of the German ladies, and was examining the sailor as a probable spy fit for patriotic denunciation.
• Against this slovenly indifference we have already remonstrated, and we again enter our protest.
• Those who see nothing but the nasty slovenly places in which labourers live, round London, know nothing of England.
• Such are much wanted, and seem like points of light among the swarms of settlers, whose aims are sordid, whose habits thoughtless and slovenly.
• Or at least the slovenly willingness to hold two directly contradictory propositions at one and the same time is becoming more and more common.
• They speak as if they affirmed, and they act as if they denied, and in their hearts they cherish a slovenly sort of suspicion that we can neither deny nor affirm.
• The house and place had about them that characteristic appearance of abundance and slovenly neglect which is, unfortunately, almost peculiar to our country.
• They will soon knock into shape, for Colonel Hoad hates the sight of a slovenly horseman as badly as a duck hates a dust storm.
• Her round was a long one, and few people seemed tempted to buy of such a slovenly, disagreeable-looking woman, one who grew rude too, if people did not want any of her goods.
• Little variety of crops, and the tillage slovenly, and without manure or irrigation.
• And what was his fear at Stockholm? The slovenly soldier! Yes, he had given her the real reason after all during that dinner on the balcony at Hasselbacken.
• His method was as slovenly as ignorance could make it.
• There is no profession or trade in which a slovenly manner will not show itself, and none where its effects will be more apparent than this.
• He could scarcely believe that he had not mistaken the road, and come to some other cottage than the slovenly one that he had left in the morning.
• They were slovenly in appearance, and wore a look of discontent and hopelessness.
• There is nothing so unpardonable, in his eyes, as a slovenly and ill-fitting dress.
• If your document be slovenly, the presumption is that its literary execution is the same, Pope to the contrary notwithstanding.
• It recalled men from slovenly prejudices to the study of the real facts of the living world.
• His musket, which was always scrupulously clean, was one day replaced by another in most slovenly order.
• He was rather shabby and slovenly in dress, and he had fallen unkempt, after the country fashion, as to his hair and beard and boots.
• If you acquire slovenly or sleepy habits of study now, you will never get the better of it.

Similar words containing SLOVEN without suffix ly

sloven9 slovens10 slovenry14 slovenlier13 slovenlike17 slovenries13 slovenliest14 slovenliness15 slovenlinesses17

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