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Slatternly

Slatternly \Slat"tern*ly\, a. Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty. -- adv. In a slatternly manner.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
slatternly

1670s, from slattern + -ly (1).

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slatternly

a. Appropriate to or characteristic of a slattern. adv. In a slatternly manner.

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slatternly

adj. used especially of women [syn: blowsy, blowzy, sluttish]

Usage examples of "slatternly".

A lot of slatternly women flitted hither and thither in a hurry, with coffee-pots, plates of bread, and other appurtenances to supper, and these were said to be the wives of the Angel--or some of them, at least.

Through the open doorway a slatternly woman was visible behind a plank set on a couple of kegs, dispensing what might charitably be termed whisky to a barefoot white man in the togs and tarred pigtail of a British sailor, a keelboatman whose clothing and body could be smelled from the door, and a couple of the weariest, grubbiest whores January had ever seen in his life.

The first was a florist's van, driven by a slatternly woman smoking a cigarette.

He could appreciate D’ram not wanting those slatternly drudges about a freshened Weyr.