slovenly

Speech parts

1. slovenly - Adjective

2. slovenly - Adverb

4. slovenly - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

a slovenly manner.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

frowzy frowsy dowdy slack mangy scruff slipshod frump dirty clumsy careless reckless negligent haphazard disordered
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Antonyms

immaculate fop prim natty curry dapper
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Examples

Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly. William Wycherley

If a Cynic is an object of pity, he seems a mere beggar; all turn away, all are offended at him. Nor should be be slovenly of look, so as not to scare men from him in this way either; on the contrary, his very roughness should be clean and attractive. Epictetus

Sinclair Lewis was a crypto-sentimentalist and a slovenly writer who managed a slight falsification of life in order to move the reader. Sinclair Lewis

An artist cannot do anything slovenly. Jane Austen

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader. Maya Angelou

filled the door with her frowzy bulk Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

slovenlike slovenlily slovenliness slovenly individual slovenly person slovenly woman