How To Use Slatternly In A Sentence
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She is a slatternly female.
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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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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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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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One is smart but ill at ease; one is slatternly but gorgeous.
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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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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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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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A most fitting tribute for such a slatternly housekeeper.
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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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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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Now I wonder how he sees my slatternly ways given his own promptness.
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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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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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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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As Sylvie's grandmother would say (as she did, indeed, frequently say), Sylvie is slovenly, slatternly.
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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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Vain, shallow and slatternly, it is not what our grandfathers died for.
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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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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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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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It’s not that they’re not SF writers; they’re just not slutty, slatternly Sci-Fi hacks in fishnet tights.
In The Ghetto