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Definition of Slatternliness
1. Noun. In the manner of a slattern.
Generic synonyms: Slovenliness
Derivative terms: Slatternly, Sluttish, Sluttish
Definition of Slatternliness
1. n. The quality or state of being slatternly; slovenliness; untidiness.
Definition of Slatternliness
1. Noun. The condition of being slatternly, or of being a slattern ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slatternliness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slatternliness
Literary usage of Slatternliness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. He Knew He was Right by Anthony Trollope (1869)
"... slatternliness. She was unjust enough to declare afterwards that she had found
Arabella French only half dressed at between three and four o'clock in ..."
2. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, Richard Alexander Streatfeild (1916)
"The room in fact was as depressing from its slatternliness as from its atmosphere
of erudition. Theobald and Ernest as they entered it, stumbled over a ..."
3. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1899)
"A man who wears a dressing-gown is not neat in his person ; his moral character
takes invariably some of the slatternliness and looseness of his costume; ..."
4. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"... uses of phrase —in short, in a general slatternliness as regards all the minor,
and some of the major, points that constitute style. ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"... and from play of the tongue, which produced an amount of slatternliness that
attempts at Sunday finery served to intermit, not to repair. ..."
6. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"A man who wears a dressing-gown is not neat in his person ; his moral character
takes invariably some of the slatternliness and looseness of his costume: he ..."
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