SLOVENLY in a Sentence
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Example sentences for SLOVENLY, such as:
1. I had let myself get too slovenly.
2. Better a bachelor's life than a slovenly wife.
3. She looked poor white, shiftless, slovenly, trifling.
4. Such sloven work habits will never produce good products.
5. I mean not to be slovenly about her dress or untidy in leaving things about.
2. Better a bachelor's life than a slovenly wife.
3. She looked poor white, shiftless, slovenly, trifling.
4. Such sloven work habits will never produce good products.
5. I mean not to be slovenly about her dress or untidy in leaving things about.
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Meanings and Examples of SLOVENLY
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slovenly
a. negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt
Classic Sentence:
1 Our liturgy," observed Crawford, "has beauties, which not even a careless, slovenly style of reading can destroy; but it has also redundancies and repetitions which require good reading not to be felt.
2 He was clad in a professional but rather slovenly fashion, for his frock-coat was dingy and his trousers frayed.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
Context Highlight In Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes
3 She looked poor white, shiftless, slovenly, trifling.
4 I mean not to be slovenly about her dress or untidy in leaving things about.
5 I had let myself get too slovenly.
6 Nothing must be sloven or slipshod; every door, every fence, must be kept in repair.
Example Sentence:
1 Unshaven, sitting around in his bathrobe all afternoon, Gus didn't seem to care about the slovenly appearance he presented.
2 Better a bachelor's life than a slovenly wife.
3 Such sloven work habits will never produce good products.