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/slˈætənli/
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ADJECTIVE
- characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women
How To Use slatternly In A Sentence
- She is a slatternly female.
- 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"
- 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
- 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
- One is smart but ill at ease; one is slatternly but gorgeous.
- He started to leave the room, tripping over a loose seam in the slatternly carpet. Chapter 3
- 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.
- 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
- A most fitting tribute for such a slatternly housekeeper.
- 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'