What is "slovenliness"

Usage examples of "slovenliness".

I added that I could not, much to my regret, obey him, and that if I had meant to live in slovenliness, I would have become a Capuchin and not an abbe.

It becomes me but ill to speak so warmly in favour of that body of whom I am the least worthy member, but what other is there in Erewhon so above all suspicion of slovenliness, selfseeking, preconceived bias, or bad faith?

It is rather encouraging to see this kind of slovenliness happening on the other side as well.

Trainable slovenliness had encouraged this threat to one of the most important installations on twelve chronoplanes.

The Lemon Drop Kid is so busy all afternoon thinking of the injustice of the sleuths that he never even bothers to look up this particular race beforehand, and afterward he is quite generally criticized for slovenliness in this matter, for if a guy is around telling the tale about a race, he is entitled to pick out a horse that has at least some kind of a chance.

But that was more in the way of a reaction to the slovenliness of Dolist life than anything driven by hard ideology, much less religious conviction.

Jane Sharpe was merely lodging in the house, for he could not believe that she would allow such slovenliness in her own home.

The crowds of fluttering eunuchs around us were aghast at such slovenliness, but at his insistence did his bidding.

EYES There is nothing described with so little attention, with such slovenliness, or so without verification - albeit with so much confidence and word-painting - as the eyes of the men and women whose faces have been made memorable by their works.

It was a sullen ship, a floating monument to slovenliness, dirt, unidentifiable stenches.

Brian does not normally tolerate slovenliness, especially here in Kincora.

I added that I could not, much to my regret, obey him, and that if I had meant to live in slovenliness, I would have become a Capuchin and not an abbe.