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Definition of Sluttishly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sluttishly
Literary usage of Sluttishly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1873)
"... specimens of natural history crowd* which are not dust-tight, and sluttishly
n< labels wanting—throughout an air of «I* ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"Sleer, va to swill or sluice out carelessly or sluttishly. Slender, adj.,phr.
'as slender in tho middle as a cow in tho waste.' This periphrasis to describe ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"To lie torpid, sluttishly gurgling and mumbling, spiritually in soak ' in the
Devil's Pickle' (choicest elixir the Devil brews, — is not unconscious or ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... gurgling and sluttishly simmering, amid continual steamy indistinctness, —
except, as was hinted, in wind-gusts; with occasional terrifico-absurd ..."
5. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from by Samuel Johnson, Henry John Todd, Alexander Chalmers (1824)
"Hay. only of women. TRAPES. *. i. aaa TVl'RAPE. ». x. [commonly written to
traip.tc.l thoroughly. South. To run idly and sluttishly about : it ..."
6. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"... which were transpiring, or sluttishly bubbling up, in poor benighted rotten
Europe here or there ;—since these are sufficient to date the Transaction ..."
7. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1865)
"A solid, sluttishly comfortable- "looking Village; with pleasant hay-fields, or
long narrow "hay-stripes (each villager has his stripe), reaching down to ..."
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