Slovenly

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Slovenly \Slov"en*ly\, adv.
     a slovenly manner.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Slovenly \Slov"en*ly\, a.
     1. Having the habits of a sloven; negligent of neatness and
        order, especially in dress.
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              A slovenly, lazy fellow, lolling at his ease.
                                                    --L'Estrange.
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     2. Characteristic of a sloven; lacking neatness and order;
        evincing negligence; as, slovenly dress.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  slovenly
       adj : negligent of neatness especially in dress and person;
             habitually dirty and unkempt; "filled the door with her
             frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly
             appearance" [syn: {frowsy}, {frowzy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  88 Moby Thesaurus words for "slovenly":
     barbarous, beat-up, bedraggled, blowsy, blowzy, botched, bungling,
     careless, chintzy, clumsy, deficient, dilapidated, dingy, dirty,
     disheveled, dowdy, down-at-heel, drabbletailed, draggled,
     draggletailed, dusty, erroneous, faulty, frowsy, frowzy, frumpish,
     frumpy, grimy, grubby, grungy, half-assed, haphazard, hit-and-miss,
     hit-or-miss, imprecise, improper, in rags, incorrect, infelicitous,
     informal, loose, lumpen, messy, miry, muddy, mussy, negligent,
     poky, promiscuous, ragged, raggedy, raunchy, ruinous, scraggly,
     scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slapdash, slatternly,
     sleazy, slipshod, slipshoddy, slobbery, sloppy, sloven, sluttish,
     smirchy, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, solecistic, sooty,
     sordid, squalid, tacky, tattered, uncombed, unfastidious,
     ungrammatic, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, unthorough, untidy