Adjective, : slutty behavior. From Dictionary.com.
It was Gourlay's pride in his house that made him harsher to his wife than others, since her sluttishness was a constant offence to the order in which he loved to have his dear possessions. From Wordnik.com. [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference
Quantity rests with the hen, but quality — like the “sluttishness” of. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
After all, this isn't Match. com, and I refuse to lapse into cyber-sluttishness. From Wordnik.com. [Victoria Lautman: Facebook 'Friends' and the Gentle Art of Summer Poaching] Reference
For a female: love, value-as-a-female, skills in general, appearance, and their morals/sluttishness. From Wordnik.com. [jaxraven Diary Entry] Reference
Certainly, I prefer Closer 's dangerous, desperate reality – the cold narcissistic sluttishness of it all – to Martin McDonagh's whimsical tall tales of Ireland that get me down. From Wordnik.com. [What's Love Got to Do With It? Closer Makes It Sexy on Broadway] Reference
One may be ever so poor and may have ever so little clothing, but one can always tell by a girl's appearance, what is to be laid to the account of poverty, and what is to be laid to the account of sluttishness. From Wordnik.com. [No and Other Stories Compiled by Uncle Humphrey] Reference
In patriarchy, female sexuality is, by definition, “sluttish”—available to all men when and where we want it, etc.—and its sluttishness is only ameliorated/neutralized to the degree that any given woman regulates her sexuality according to patriarchal norms. From Wordnik.com. [Male Privilege Checklist: The Slut Phenomenon] Reference
For those of you on slow connections, let me save you the trouble; Ms. Lohan has put out a video that pretty much leaves her marching squarely down the trail of rebellion, “strong woman” independence, and barely-legal sluttishness that Britney Spears has perfected to a tee. From Wordnik.com. [Scary revelations at 2am] Reference
But let the site of such places be as it may, how can they be excused that have a delicious seat, a pleasant air, and all that nature can afford, and yet through their own nastiness, and sluttishness, immund and sordid manner of life, suffer their air to putrefy, and themselves to be chocked up?. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
And these ordinarily have more pratling and felling then any other women, and no body knows any thing better then these sworn tittletattlers; they are seldom to be found with a pin-cushion upon their laps; and are the occasion that their houses, children and Maids stink of filth and sluttishness, with their cloaths out at the elbous, and their stockins out at the heels. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple] Reference
So, too, on lower grounds, would his wife's sluttishness. From Wordnik.com. [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference
Well, praised be the gods for thy foulness! sluttishness may come hereafter. From Wordnik.com. [As You Like It] Reference
Dust lay thick about him; he had grown accustomed to it, as to many another form of sluttishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Whirlpool] Reference
If finery betrays a frivolous mind, sluttishness and bad taste certainly betray an ill-regulated one. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother's Book] Reference
But in the end there is a limit to what the public sector can do to address the sluttishness of the public. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
But her sluttishness was soon her trademark and it brought in millions of box-office dollars for her unscrupulous studio bosses. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
He had heard his father and his mother (and Mercier even) comment on the sluts whose sluttishness sent up the death rate of the infant population. From Wordnik.com. [The Combined Maze] Reference
Besides this, being rich, and proud of so being, he resented the misery and -- as he said at the bottom of his soul -- the sluttishness of the Todros. From Wordnik.com. [An Obscure Apostle A Dramatic Story] Reference
The drawers, trunks and work-box of a young lady should be occasionally inspected, for the purpose of correcting any tendency to wastefulness, or sluttishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother's Book] Reference
The maids are cautioned against such female errors as sluttishness, tale-bearing, staying on errands, telling family affairs, aping the fashion, and giving saucy answers. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Romances of Mrs Eliza Haywood]
The great hotel is given over to discomfort from the foundation to the chimney-tops; everywhere a pinching, narrow habit, scanty meals, and an air of sluttishness and dirt. From Wordnik.com. [Edinburgh Picturesque Notes] Reference
Not because of the shrill women or the whipped men; not even because of the sad son whose constant exposure to his mother's repulsive admissions and sluttishness seems more appropriate to a lurid. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
The servant, incensed at thus being accused of sluttishness, replied, "By St. Peter, my masters, the house is so neat and clean that there is no nastiness in it but what you have brought in with you.". From Wordnik.com. [The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre] Reference
To him the vulture means idleness; the kite, rapacity; the raven, detraction; the white owl, hypochondria; the common owl, ignorance; the magpie, chattering talk; and the hoopoe, sluttishness and evil report. From Wordnik.com. [The Cathedral] Reference
Scottish housekeepers, and stands unparalleled for cleanliness among the women of Auld Reekie; but the cleanliness of Hannah is sluttishness compared to the scrupulous purifications of these people, who seem to carry into the minor decencies of life that conscientious rigour which they affect in their morals. From Wordnik.com. [Redgauntlet] Reference
The starved galled horses, broken harness, unmended clothes and wide-mouthed sluttishness under the mound on which stand the Cenci's houses, a foul mound of demolition and rag-pickers, only a stone's-throw from the brand-new shop streets, the Lungo Tevere, the magnificence of palaces like the Mattei, Caetani, &c. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of Rome] Reference
Indeed, she is a perfect female virtuoso, and so eager after the pursuit of knowledge that she neglects her person even to a degree of sluttishness; this negligence, together with her contempt of the male part of the creation, gives her nephew no great concern, as by these means he will probably keep her fortune, which is considerable. in the family. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Roderick Random] Reference
Her mannerisms ” the licking of her fingers to smooth her eyebrows, the coltish hopping onto Biberkopf's lap, the giggly flirtations, the fits of hysterical screaming ” are marks of a kind of innocent sluttishness, if such a thing can be imagined. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius of Berlin] Reference
Thy father’s Hannah is generally allowed to be an exception to all Scottish housekeepers, and stands unparalleled for cleanliness among the women of Auld Reekie; but the cleanliness of Hannah is sluttishness compared to the scrupulous purifications of these people, who seem to carry into the minor decencies of life that conscientious rigour which they affect in their morals. From Wordnik.com. [Redgauntlet] Reference
“Erasmus ascribes the plague (from which England was hardly ever free) and the sweating-sickness, partly to the incommodious form and bad exposition of the houses, to the filthiness of the streets, and to the sluttishness within doors. From Wordnik.com. [Early English Meals and Manners] Reference
What stories have I heard of her sluttishness!. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Count Grammont — Complete] Reference
Schlampigkeit; frowziness, grubbiness, slatternliness, slouchiness, slovenliness, sluttery, sluttishness. From Wordnik.com. [von Storch on MBH "Shoddiness" « Climate Audit] Reference
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