Both Uses of
slovenly
in
Atlas Shrugged
- The girl had blurred eyes, a perspiring face, an ermine cape and a beautiful evening gown that had slipped off one shoulder like a slovenly housewife's bathrobe, revealing too much of her breast, not in a manner of daring, but in the manner of a drudge's indifference.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- But she saw lights in the windows of the cheap, garish structures that had acquired, within a few years, the slovenly dilapidation of slum hovels; the homes of people who had not moved, the people who never looked beyond the span of one week.†
Chpt 2.5
Definition:
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(slovenly) dirty and unkempt