How To Use Slattern In A Sentence
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She is a slatternly female.
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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.
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I learned Lambaneish insults meaning slattern, sloven, idler, lackwit.
Wildfire
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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
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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'
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A most fitting tribute for such a slatternly housekeeper.
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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.
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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.
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He has managed to look past her grinning liberal facade and seen the power mad slattern within.
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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.
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The shoulders of the ladies at play were no barer than those of the slatterns who gaped at them playing; but for Ippolita, who had always been a decent girl, let us hope her blushes were a cloak.
Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
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The slattern swallowed nervously, but then she straightened, and defiant spite flashed in her eyes, made even stronger by the shame of her own fear as she realized he wasn't going to attack her after all.
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All the life about him - the odors of stale vegetables and soapsuds, the slatternly form of his sister, and the jeering face of Mr. Higginbotham - was a dream.
Chapter 11
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Superbly situated, magnificently endowed as to climate, the _chef-lieu_ of the Bouches du Rhône must be called a slatternly beauty; whilst embellishing herself, putting on her jewels and splendid attire, she has forgotten to wash her face and trim her hair!
In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller"
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An uninvited face peered around a slatternly bookshelf like a panchromatic pigmy sizing up her potential victim from behind a company of charitable trees with a telephoto blowpipe.
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He started to leave the room, tripping over a loose seam in the slatternly carpet.
Chapter 3
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One is smart but ill at ease; one is slatternly but gorgeous.
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Why would I be jealous just because I saw you pawing some slattern in the kitchen yard?
The Devil Wears Plaid
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When we first see her in Minneapolis, a slattern in a junk-strewn apartment, she's living on scraps of loveless sex, drinking too much and picking up snatches of kids' conversations here and there, then dropping them into her chronicles of Kendall Strickland, the teenage heroine of a series called Waverly Prep that is, in fact, headed for the dustbin of subliterary history.
Nervy 'Young Adult' Dazzles by the Book
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Thorn only felt sorry for the slatterns, and wished she could help them - she didn't hate them because of their jobs, like so many others did.
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Or Martin Honeysett's grisly depiction of a fat, slatternly woman watching TV while surrounded by a mess of ashtrays, empty beer cans and fast food boxes.
Simon Hoggart's week: We won't be taken for a ride, cabbies
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And aII because Mrs Huffmaster, a barefoot slattern with half a dozen snottering brats at her heels, "came a-callin"', peeping round Annie on the porch to get a look inside, and remarking slyly "what a smart lot o' shirts your men-folk has ", when we'd carelessly put all our washing out at once, and there were clothes for fifteen or twenty fluttering on the green.
THE NUMBERS
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She was a large, stout woman, always dressed slatternly and always tired from the burdens of her flesh, her work, and her husband.
Chapter 3
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When we first see her in Minneapolis, a slattern in a junk-strewn apartment, she's living on scraps of loveless sex, drinking too much and picking up snatches of kids' conversations here and there, then dropping them into her chronicles of Kendall Strickland, the teenage heroine of a series called Waverly Prep that is, in fact, headed for the dustbin of subliterary history.
Nervy 'Young Adult' Dazzles by the Book
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In the perverse way of teenagers, she enjoyed the odd freedom of the scarlet S (for slut, slattern, skank) which she got to (pretend to) wear around the house for the last months she was there.
The Beginning and End of Comedy
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I am also curious how you brought the old slattern back.
Zombies vs. Unicorns
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Some of our comrades love to unite long articles with no substance, very much like the foot-bindings of a slattern long as well as smelly.
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Now I wonder how he sees my slatternly ways given his own promptness.
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While "slattern" and "French letter" are dated, they made me think of those cute nicknames parents give the vagina, labia, penis, and scrotum when talking to their kids.
Feminist blogs
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It’s not that they’re not SF writers; they’re just not slutty, slatternly Sci-Fi hacks in fishnet tights.
In The Ghetto
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Phoebe and Audrey were trapped within stereotypes of the flouncing young miss and the buxom slattern respectively.
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Is it the slattern who generates offspring solely for the sake of the allotment they command?
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The Norsemen were apparently as sexist as we are: all of the following, flag, giglet, gimmer, skit, and slattern generally mean ` low, contemptible woman '; only may ` maiden' has survived with specific reference to women without pejoration.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 3
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They are generally called blue-stockings, are described as slatternly in their dress and always as having their fingertips dabbled with ink.
The Five of Hearts
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Housework in the 1950s was also a big deal, and I say that not with the slatternly view that not all dirt is a bad thing, but rather in admiration.
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An American cackle, piercing my ear, and I shuddered away by instinct, which was sound judgment, for if I felt dreadful, she looked worse, a raddled slattern grinning her stinking breath into my face, reaching out a fat hand across my chest.
THE NUMBERS
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From time to time, as they hurried on, they encountered, and made wide detours to escape contact with knots of wayfarers -- men debased and begrimed, with dreary and slatternly women, arm in arm, zigzaging widely across the sidewalks, chorusing with sodden voices the burden of some popularized ballad.
The Black Bag
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I am clearly an unorganized slattern of the worst sort..
Updatery
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When we first see her in Minneapolis, a slattern in a junk-strewn apartment, she's living on scraps of loveless sex, drinking too much and picking up snatches of kids' conversations here and there, then dropping them into her chronicles of Kendall Strickland, the teenage heroine of a series called Waverly Prep that is, in fact, headed for the dustbin of subliterary history.
Nervy 'Young Adult' Dazzles by the Book
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Vain, shallow and slatternly, it is not what our grandfathers died for.
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Playing the malevolent, abrasive junkie single mother of a missing kidnap victim, a slatternly, slack-jawed racist, Ryan adopted a drunkard's waxen pallor, honked up the full braying working-class Boston accent and, in those seven minutes, ran a gamut of emotions, from sullen resentment to inappropriate levity and a final descent into abject sobbing – a magnificent shipwreck of a performance.
Amy Ryan: the Isabelle Huppert of Hollywood
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Don Pedro Gil: his progeny grew up a thriving and merry-hearted, though short and bandy-legged generation, while Senora Gil, befringed, belaced, and betasselled from her head to her heels, with glittering rings on every finger, became a model of slattern fashion and finery.
The Alhambra
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My father may have been ‘posh’, but I was a complex individual, with no intention of being reduced to some convenient stereotype to fill out a box on a slattern's list of conquests.
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I fancy my predecessor must have been a "slattern," for everything was thick with dust.
In the Ranks of the C.I.V.
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You are clearly becoming a slattern, and my royal court is run by a hedgerow slut, just as my mother warned me.
The White Queen
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As Sylvie's grandmother would say (as she did, indeed, frequently say), Sylvie is slovenly, slatternly.
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A cheerful but slatternly Indian woman set before me a thin soup containing a piece of squash and a square of boiled beef, and eight hot corn tortillas of the size and shape of our pancakes, or _gkebis_, the Arab bread, which it outdid in toughness and total absence of taste.
Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond
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He barked so long, so loud, and so furiously, running 'round and' round the cart and under it and yelping at every turn, that a slatternly scullery maid opened a door and angrily bade him "no 'to deave folk wi' 'is blatterin'.
Greyfriars Bobby
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Playing the malevolent, abrasive junkie single mother of a missing kidnap victim, a slatternly, slack-jawed racist, Ryan adopted a drunkard's waxen pallor, honked up the full braying working-class Boston accent and, in those seven minutes, ran a gamut of emotions, from sullen resentment to inappropriate levity and a final descent into abject sobbing – a magnificent shipwreck of a performance.
Amy Ryan: the Isabelle Huppert of Hollywood