The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sluttish \Slut"tish\, a. Like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness; disorderly; as, a sluttish woman.
Why is thy lord so slutish, I thee pray.
--Chaucer.
An air of liberal, though sluttish, plenty, indicated
the wealthy farmer.
--Sir W.
Scott.
[1913 Webster] -- Slut"tish*ly, adv. -- Slut"tish*ness,
n.
Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being sluttish.
WordNet
n. in the manner of a slattern [syn: slatternliness]
Usage examples of "sluttishness".
Very likely he seemed to himself to be standing just and rocklike and with neither haste nor anger while on all sides the sluttishness of weak human men seethed in a long sigh of terror about the actual representative of the wrathful and retributive Throne.
It was as though he carried within him, somewhere within that inert and sighing mass of flesh, the secret itself: that which moved and evoked them as with a promise of something beyond the sluttishness of stuffed entrails and monotonous days.
Looking down at the unconscious face, it seems to Byron as though the whole man were fleeing away from the nose which holds invincibly to something yet of pride and courage above the sluttishness of vanquishment like a forgotten flag above a ruined fortress.
Them children call one another worse than nigger,’ and God said, ‘You wait and you watch, because I ain’t got the time to waste neither with this world’s sluttishness and bitchery.