Sentence example with the word 'slatternly'

slatternly

beat-up, chintzy, dowdy, foul, grimy, lumpen, poky, seedy, slipshod, squalid, unsightly

Definition adj. characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern

Last update: August 5, 2015


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Elsewhere in this volume the slanderous aspersion has been disproved, that the vocation of whaling is throughout a slatternly, untidy business.   [Please select]

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The face of the woman, her manner and slatternly aspect, and the general effect of her belongings, bespoke squalid ignorance and poverty.   [Please select]

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But instead of the big, motherly old figure, beaming at them from the toll-house door, a slatternly maid-servant said her mistress was out.   [Please select]

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You are hideous, slatternly, unfriendly; but through all the disguise I recognize you.   [Please select]

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There is nothing to do--except trail after a small number of slatternly young women we despise and hate.   [Please select]

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Kate ushered in a slatternly little woman, dirty, ugly, cross-eyed and her face red from weeping.   [Please select]

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II To each of the passengers his seat was his temporary home, and most of the passengers were slatternly housekeepers.   [Please select]

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