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.

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