Characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women.
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Examples for "slatternly "
Examples for "slatternly "
1 She was cheerful as the snow began to conceal the slatternly yards.
2 A knock at the door brought out a slatternly looking colored woman.
3 A rigid system, faithfully administered, would be better than a slatternly compromise.
4 The next moment a slatternly - looking girl appeared at the head of the stairs.
5 The slatternly woman ran her guns out and returned the broadside with promptitude.
1 Her hair came partly undone and fell down over her blowsy face.
2 She was a dark, blowsy girl with a slight squint, about twenty-five.
3 Are you sure I don't look rather blowsy , and like a milkmaid?
4 She was not a blowsy whore, of course-she was an orphan.
5 The blowsy lady was grinning; her front teeth had already been knocked out.
1 One is the 19-year-old sluttish Sylvie; the other is the young actor, Patrick.
2 So Noorna continued slapping Kadza, and cried, 'Is she not sluttish ?
3 I will not have him think us poor or sluttish .
4 I would not have him think us poor or sluttish . '
5 He sat down in the sluttish armchair and undid the straps of the brief-case.
1 It was the nurse, her sleeve lifted, her blowzy face convulsed.
2 I got a blowzy blond wig, painted-on jeans and cowboy boots.
3 The loveliness of the woods in March is not, assuredly, of this blowzy rustic type.
4 Gwendolyn lifted terrified eyes for a second look at the brick-colored hair, the blowzy countenance.
5 Meanwhile it gets us a blowzy character, by shouldering roughly among the children of civilization.
6 Could other men have loved at all-couldany man love those blowzy , common girls of earth?
7 Besides, he goes for big, blowzy women.
8 The roof sat at a precarious angle, like a tilted cap on the head of a blowzy drunk.
9 Her file photo showed me a blowzy blonde with big Jersey hair, lots of makeup and a slim frame.
10 Alma Mater used to be a sentimental lady, barefoot in blowzy drapery, looking afar to vain wisdom and the Greeks.
11 Critical feminine eyes might have found her a trifle blowzy ; the sick-hearted Basset boy looked once,-hedared not look again.
12 Now, however, Athlone, hitherto a perfectly adequate if nondescript and rather blowzy midlands town, has shyly revealed its own growth aspirations.
13 No blowzy barmaids for him to-day: an American bar-keep to whom he could tell his troubles and receive the proper meed of sympathy.
14 A blowzy young woman, in orange color and green, with short tinsel-covered skirts, bounded wearily on to the stage, smiling, and began to sing:
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