Definition of Slovenry

1. n. Slovenliness.

Definition of Slovenry

1. Noun. (archaic) dirtiness; uncleanliness ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Slovenry

1. slovenliness [n SLOVENRIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slovenry

sloughs
sloughy
slovakia
slove
sloven
slovenia
slovenlier
slovenliest
slovenlike
slovenliness
slovenlinesses
slovenly
slovenly person
slovenly woman
slovenness
slovenry (current term)
slovens
slow
slow-cook
slow-motion
slow-moving
slow-reacting factor of anaphylaxis
slow-reacting substance
slow-walk
slow-witted
slow-wittedness
slow as a snail
slow ball

Literary usage of Slovenry

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

1. The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of by William Shakespeare (1807)
"... There 's not a piece of feather in our host, (Good argument, I hope, we shall not fly,) Ant; time hath worn us into slovenry: But, by the mass, ..."

2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1847)
"Well, if I am a sloven, which I hardly know how to admit, and if I am a little in love with a kind of genteel slovenry, how came I by it ? ..."

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