slattern

How To Use slattern In A Sentence

• The women who do appear are usually painted in lurid colours as prostitutes and slatterns, or as the odd lonely, isolated ‘lady’, having a thoroughly miserable time of it.
• I learned Lambaneish insults meaning slattern, sloven, idler, lackwit. Wildfire
• Martin went into the kitchen with a sinking heart, the image of her red face and slatternly form eating its way like acid into his brain. Chapter 5
• Dominic Cooper is a fatuous rock star, and Jessica Barden is a wondrously funny teenager, and slatternly deus ex machina, who adores him. A Grownup Look at Lennon as a 'Boy'
• She is a slatternly female.
• A most fitting tribute for such a slatternly housekeeper.
• So one might become, for example, an alcoholic, violent, or an hysteric, or a slattern or a bully, if that is what a parent was like.
• She was sociable and extravagant, spending large sums on jewellery and furs, and decorated their home with frills and bows, yet at the same time she liked a tipple and was something of a slattern.
• He has managed to look past her grinning liberal facade and seen the power mad slattern within.
• Modern viewers might suppose they are looking at a period slattern, but the original audience likely would have seen the image very differently: as an illustration of virtue.