Any slovenliness is trained out of us in childhood. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
Her slovenliness and untidiness did not trouble him. From Wordnik.com. [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference
This was largely a product of linguistic slovenliness. From Wordnik.com. [From 9/11 to 11/4] Reference
There was no school-girl slovenliness about Emmeline Nash. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.] Reference
The result, in general, is an increase in slovenliness and vagueness. From Wordnik.com. [Politics and the English Language] Reference
Some people fancy that slovenliness of attire indicates a mind above petty details. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861] Reference
It's almost as if the mullahs and their followers take pride in their slovenliness. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Alex Benzer: Why the Mullahs are Un-Iranian: 7 Fatal Flaws] Reference
I have always protested against this carelessness and slovenliness of the English poor. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
But well-executed work in one department by no means justifies slovenliness in another. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
There was even the appearance of some prosperity, at the same time an extreme slovenliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Insulted and the Injured] Reference
She never acquiesced in the UNCREATEDNESS of the new country, the rawness, the slovenliness. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
Others affect an opposite slovenliness, which shows equal disregard of use and effectiveness. From Wordnik.com. [The Etiquette of To-day] Reference
His habiliments were composed of an exquisite union of gentility, slovenliness, assumption, simplicity. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz] Reference
Its shoulders seemed to slump forward, but the posture suggested brute strength rather than slovenliness. From Wordnik.com. [Ship Of Magic]
His whole appearance was marked by slovenliness; his ungloved hands were dirty and his long nails were black. From Wordnik.com. [A Raw Youth] Reference
Indistinct enunciation comes from a natural slovenliness of mind, from nervousness, haste or over-excitement. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
When not well developed, it indicates lack of self-esteem, slovenliness and indifference to personal appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] 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
The Warkans had their reasons to let the fence go like that, but the Bloochers had no excuse for such slovenliness. From Wordnik.com. [Destiny's Road]
The lack of adequate supervision and the general slovenliness prevailing made it easy for me to go about unchallenged. From Wordnik.com. [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference
I decided his car had finally reached just ridiculous levels of slovenliness, and it was time to do something about it. From Wordnik.com. [ana-ng Diary Entry] Reference
But as George Orwell once observed, "the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.". From Wordnik.com. [From 9/11 to 11/4] Reference
He did so with the utmost delicacy, for it was all an indirect indictment of my own slovenliness and sinful carelessness. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
Minister, to Jefferson, whom we find in an unofficial costume of studied slovenliness, intended as a snub to haughty Albion. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
I alternated between passive submission to island laziness, shiftlessness, slovenliness, dirt, and active assertion of Ohio vim. From Wordnik.com. [An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China] Reference
It is not roughing it to eat tinned food out of the tin when a plate costs a penny or two: it is either hypocrisy or slovenliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology] Reference
We had evidently caught the household stripped of "lugs," and sunk in the down-at-the-heel slovenliness which it called "comfort.". From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
The bright day certainly brought out the accumulating slovenliness of the Skinner couple more vividly than he had ever seen it before. From Wordnik.com. [The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth] Reference
My problem with Lebowski at first was that Jeff Bridges gives slacker slovenliness a bad name-while the earlier Slacker gives it a good name. From Wordnik.com. [Dude, Where's My Dude ? Dudelicious Dissection, From Sontag to Spicoli] Reference
It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [Civil Discourse and Private Military Contractors] Reference
Shaving in the trenches was made compulsory in March, as it was thought that it kept the men from deteriorating and would prevent any tendency to slovenliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the "9th King's" in France] Reference
One finds, however, nothing of Orientalism in the regulations of this body of troops; not the least negligence or slovenliness is allowed in the most trifling detail. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859] Reference
Academy, and our exhibitions in general, he would be startled at the excess of ornament, in defiance of his rule of repose, succeeding the slovenliness of his own day. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
The security is tacit in the earlier papers here reprinted; in the later ones it is more declared, and becomes somewhat careless, though it can never beget slovenliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867] Reference
One term you simply had to wear a dark blue-and-white tie for going into the town and bear's grease your hair; another term a certain slovenliness in dress was the thing. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
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