The campers felt pretty slatternly after being out in the wilderness for five days. From LearnThat.org.
Minerva was a woman of pretty good sense, but of slatternly habits. From Wordnik.com. [Plantation Sketches] Reference
The crowd about the town pump consisted of one slatternly small girl and. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Rachel] Reference
The ornate houses are slatternly, their doorways barred, windows shuttered. From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
The Jenkins boys were the children of a drunken father, a slatternly mother. From Wordnik.com. [Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir] Reference
The voice was that of a slatternly woman of middle age, thin and complaining. From Wordnik.com. [A Campfire Girl's First Council Fire The Camp Fire Girls In the Woods] Reference
There are no dodging vagrants, no slatternly women, no squalid, starving babies. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
A slatternly maid-servant opened the door for us, and he himself stood in the entry. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
Porcher, and that she was the most awkward, slatternly, and obstinate servant in the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
He paid twopence halfpenny to the slatternly girl and went out of the shop to begin his wandering again. From Wordnik.com. [Dubliners] Reference
The women who lounge here are generally stoutish and slatternly, with few clothes on, but plenty of frowzy hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
Several windows were up in the houses opposite and slatternly-looking women were craning out and exchanging observations. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
Then he addressed the slatternly young woman, who, with her paper still in one hand, was half-smiling, half-scowling at him. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
As you must be conscious that you are extremely negligent and slatternly, I hope you will resolve not to be so for the future. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
They entered the front room where Bouche-de-Miel had found the slatternly young woman reading her greasy copy of the Gazette des. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
Bart went to the back door of the house and knocked, and in a few minutes it was opened by a thin-faced, slatternly-looking woman. From Wordnik.com. [Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent] Reference
Neither one of them was anxious to return to the shanty boat for another interview with the slatternly woman who presided over it. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid] Reference
There was a strip of carpet on the floor, a picture or two on the walls, and a deep, slatternly arm-chair drawn up to the fireplace. From Wordnik.com. [Nineteen Eighty-four] Reference
She drove about from place to place in the hot, slatternly city, putting more than her usual vigour and directness into all she did. From Wordnik.com. [The Path of a Star] Reference
Two of the men were Italians, evidently the Peppino and Beppo referred to by the slatternly young woman at the counter in the outer room. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
Elsewhere in this volume the slanderous aspersion has been disproved, that the vocation of whaling is throughout a slatternly, untidy business. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
Mr. Hannon finds the lad mentality-a throwback to the slatternly pub rock of "All the Young Dudes" - era Mott the Hoople-more than a bit baffling. From Wordnik.com. [Neil Hannon Sings Love Songs For the Loveless] Reference
It was a poor enough place, with a slatternly madame who eyed Susie suspiciously, but drummed up her tarts on request, and an indifferent lot they were. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and The Redskins]
For even now, after three years or more, I could not easily say his name; I spoke of him, as slatternly servants will speak of their master, impersonally. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
Being a light-complexioned woman, she wore light clothes, as most blondes will, and appeared, in preference, in draggled sea-green, or slatternly sky-blue. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
(Flanked by a seedy pair of bellboys, Rhodes's slatternly ex-wife, the one he married before Betty Lou, rues, "I knew he'd open his big yap once too often."). From Wordnik.com. [An Unforgettable Face] Reference
Sunny, motionless, and quiet; no noisy children, no slatternly, slipshod women rolling about the decks, no slush, no washing of dirty linen in dirtier water. From Wordnik.com. [A First Year in Canterbury Settlement] Reference
On the other sat POLLY, his wife, an aimless, neutral, slatternly peasant woman, such as in these parts a man may find with the profusion of Wessex blackberries. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 7, 1892] Reference
He would also have seen a slatternly Breton servant girl, Julie, with a permanently scared look on her freckled face, kneeling on the floor and wiping the legs of the table. From Wordnik.com. [In the Rue Pigalle]
The men generally drink -- not enough to be really intoxicated (one rarely sees that in France), but enough to make them quarrelsome; and the women almost all slatternly and idle. From Wordnik.com. [Chateau and Country Life in France] Reference
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