Both Uses of
slovenly
in
Mansfield Park
- A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish—read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife.†
Chpt 11 *
- "Our liturgy," observed Crawford, "has beauties, which not even a careless, slovenly style of reading can destroy; but it has also redundancies and repetitions which require good reading not to be felt.†
Chpt 34
Definition:
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(slovenly) dirty and unkempt