slovenly

[US]/ˈslʌvnli/
[UK]/ˈslʌvnli/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. messy or untidy in appearance or habits
adv. in a messy or untidy manner

Example Sentences

Don’t slouch in that slovenly way!

People were scandalized at the slovenly management of the company.

his elegance is a living reproach to our slovenly habits.

he was upbraided for his slovenly appearance.

Real-world Examples

And you...you are an unbelievable slob. A slovenly, angry intern. I am Preston Burke.

Source: Grey's Anatomy Season 2

They viewed the Rattlers as dirty and tough and kind of slovenly slobs.

Source: Yale University Open Course: Introduction to Psychology

She disapproved of all her neighbors because of their slovenly housekeeping, and the women thought her very proud.

Source: Ah, pioneers!

He could barely take her meaning, for she spoke in a slovenly way, also, she kept her face turned aside.

Source: The Growth of the Earth (Part 1)

The young girls of Paris are not at all fond of persons of a certain age, especially when they are slovenly.

Source: The Red and the Black (Part Three)

She was slovenly, she received her suitors in untidy rags, even when good dresses of my giving hung in her cupboard.

Source: Cross Creek (Part 2)

In these two slovenly figures, with their coarse lips, teeth, and noses (Ostrodumov was even pock-marked), there was something honest and firm and persevering.

Source: Virgin Land (Part 1)

If he is slovenly in his ninety-nine cases of talking, he can seldom pull himself up to strength and exactitude in the hundredth case of writing.

Source: Southwest Associated University English Textbook

When driven with his mates to the new owners' camp, Buck saw a slipshod and slovenly affair, tent half stretched, dishes unwashed, everything in disorder; also, he saw a woman.

Source: The Call of the Wild

There was but one thing to mar Martin Poyser's pleasure in this dance: it was that he was always in close contact with Luke Britton, that slovenly farmer.

Source: Adam Bede (Volume 3)

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