Definition of Slovenliest

1. Adjective. (superlative of slovenly) ¹

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Definition of Slovenliest

1. slovenly [adj] - See also: slovenly

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slovenliest

slough of despond
sloughed
sloughier
sloughiest
sloughing
sloughing phagedena
sloughing ulcer
sloughs
sloughy
slovakia
slove
sloven
slovenia
slovenlier
slovenliest (current term)
slovenlike
slovenliness
slovenlinesses
slovenly
slovenly person
slovenly woman
slovenness
slovenry
slovens
slow
slow-cook
slow-motion
slow-moving
slow-reacting factor of anaphylaxis

Literary usage of Slovenliest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1849)
"... fellows in the borough, »ave the Quaker, who was perhaps the slovenliest fellow in the world, and had probably, for that reason, taken up his abode at ..."

2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1875)
"We will not linger about Kingston, once, if old accounts, Mr. Bigelow's included, be true, one of the slovenliest, dirtiest, unhealthiest towns in the West ..."

3. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1904)
"... save in the case of the famous copy of Anderson's Poets (shabbiest and slovenliest treasure-house of treasures immortal and priceless! ..."

4. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1917)
"... save in the case of the famous copy of Anderson's Poets (shabbiest and slovenliest treasure-house of treasures immortal and priceless! ..."

5. Impressions of America and the American Churches by George Lewis (1845)
"which indeed they did in the slovenliest possible style. Every stroke of a hoe in our potato fields would have implied thrice the muscular energy, ..."

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