I fancy my predecessor must have been a "slattern," for everything was thick with dust. From Wordnik.com. [In the Ranks of the C.I.V.] Reference
The slattern tapped the strip with a long red nail. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Nowhere]
A woman regarded as slovenly or untidy; a slattern. From Wordnik.com. [paperbridges Diary Entry] Reference
I am clearly an unorganized slattern of the worst sort. From Wordnik.com. [Updatery] Reference
I am also curious how you brought the old slattern back. From Wordnik.com. [Zombies vs. Unicorns] Reference
An Aes Sedai could make a queen on her throne look a slattern. From Wordnik.com. [A Crown of Swords]
There's nothing gratuitous about it, you pessary-stanched slattern!!. From Wordnik.com. [Story by JJ Solari] Reference
I Guess Bill need not have worried that Jessica would be a slattern. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
I proposed “slattern,” “floozie” – other words I now forget. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: There’s Someone Here to See You, Dr. Frist] Reference
I learned Lambaneish insults meaning slattern, sloven, idler, lackwit. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
You will think I have depicted a remarkable slattern, reader; not at all. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
A frail ancient slattern, she was on us before we got through the door-way. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Copper Tears]
The slattern snapped up the bill and disappeared behind the filing cabinets. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Nowhere]
You can tell a slattern because she does not throw it far enough from the house. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Enemy]
Why would I be jealous just because I saw you pawing some slattern in the kitchen yard?. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil Wears Plaid] Reference
From her I learned that because one is an actress it is not necessary to be a slattern. From Wordnik.com. [Ten American Girls From History] Reference
It was still early in the day and there was something of the slattern in her dragging gown. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
Rover might now be less respectable, maybe even a bit shabby, but was by no means a slattern. From Wordnik.com. [Inconstant Star]
No matter what movie she was in, she struck me as a jumped-up slattern fresh from the closest trailer park. From Wordnik.com. [Black and White World: This Gun for Hire – The Bleat.] Reference
We entered as before, rang the bell as before, and were admitted into the inner room by the same slattern girl. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
One of the women was a fat, creased slattern, whose jewels and dyed furs did not disguise her greasy slovenliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Door Through Space] Reference
I'm supposed to be getting up, showering, ironing some clothes for work so that my boss doesn't call me a slattern. From Wordnik.com. [The One With The Friend Whoring] Reference
Hey Right-I – perhaps you and that slattern you†™ re married to can dine at Outback Steakhouse this evening. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Tom DeLay: Response to Katrina a “Phenomenal Accomplishment”] Reference
Simon moved a bit closer to the terminal and saw a tall, ugly soldier with his arm around the waist of a chesty slattern. From Wordnik.com. [Final Theory] Reference
Over the high and numerous hills, mountains of deer and antique forest, went the mist, a slattern, trailing a ragged gown. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Makes me recall Thomas Wolfe's phrase: "Our lives are haunted by a Georgia slattern because a London cutpurse went unhung.". From Wordnik.com. [Neck-punches, people ...] Reference
In the slattern old office where Paul was learning more or less to be a workman at his trade there was no such thing as a ceiling. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
"She told me to nod three times," the little slattern replied; "but she looked like nothink but a dead one till she got the brandy.". From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
Bonus points on this snow storm Tuesday for anyone who could read about Black's law suit and didn't have to look up harridan and slattern. From Wordnik.com. [Separated at birth 2] Reference
His wife, for a wonder, was a slattern German, and she spoke. From Wordnik.com. [Without a Home] Reference
"Would you know the slattern again?" asked Colonel Thomas, scowling. From Wordnik.com. [The Hidden Children] Reference
Wasn't the girl a regular untidy slattern, and just look at her now!. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Darkness] Reference
As it's claimed messy people are less moral, one unashamed slattern fights back. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
I've always said that if I had the body for it, I would dress like a classy slattern. From Wordnik.com. [Pajiba] Reference
And if I go in tatters, 'What slattern have we here, flaunting her boldness in the very sun?'. From Wordnik.com. [The Hidden Children] Reference
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