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dirty and unkempt

It was a kind of desperate, slovenly clatter, suddenly muted on the rug.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men

It bothers me to be slovenly and asymmetrical.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
You—all of you—are selfish and slovenly!
Becca Fitzpatrick -- Hush, Hush
I suspected that Moody was either deliberately discouraging them or that his brooding, slovenly presence scared them off.
Betty Mahmoody -- Not Without My Daughter
She fluttered toward the tailor shop, dashed into its slovenly heat with the comic fastidiousness of a humming bird dipping into a dry tiger-lily.
Sinclair Lewis -- Main Street
Her heavy breasts, sagging visibly against her blouse, stained by fruit juice and chocolate, flopped slovenly from side to side.
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
Heavy, slovenly, she moved to awaken Jett with a kick of foot no less gentle than her mien.
Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
She looked poor white, shiftless, slovenly, trifling.
Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind
On the way back to the boat they passed three young Indians, loud spoken, ill-kempt and slovenly, and he felt the boys stiffen with enmity.
Margaret Craven -- I Heard the Owl Call My Name
Upon it, and leaning against a hitching-rail, were men of varying ages, most of them slovenly in old jeans and slouched sombreros.
Zane Grey -- The Lone Star Ranger
Cousin Anna, no less slovenly than in other days, had pancakes and coffee going and a big spread on the table.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
A Model T Ford sedan and a two-wheel trailer were parked beside the shack, and about the camp there hung a slovenly despair.
John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
It isn't the thing: it's slovenly, ever so slovenly.
George Bernard Shaw -- Mrs. Warren's Profession
I had let myself get too slovenly.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Notes from the Underground
Do you make sugar in this slovenly way?
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers
But no, it was a bunch of woman's hair that had been indolently tossed into a corner when some slovenly female toilet was made in this room.
Willa Cather -- Death Comes for the Archbishop
On the bright side, I had quickly reverted to my premarriage (read: slovenly) lifestyle.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
He fired the slovenly devils who caused all the trouble.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Fever, 1793
The master, being wroth with what he termed such slovenly and doltish work, did promise that he would soundly whip me for it—and—
Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
She looked offensively unkempt, with studied slovenliness as careful as grooming—and for the same purpose.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

(Editor's note: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.)

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