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She scolded her son for his slovenly habits.slovenly = messy
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The slovenly work ethic of the employee led to frequent mistakes and missed deadlines.slovenly = careless and inefficient
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Despite her slovenly appearance, she is a brilliant and meticulous researcher.slovenly = untidy or disheveled
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The restaurant was shut down due to its slovenly kitchen conditions.slovenly = excessively dirty or careless
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"Dear Miss Myrna," I read, "how do I remove the rings from my fat slovenly husband's shirt collar when he is such a pig and…and sweats like one too…" (source)slovenly = excessively dirty
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When I came home to report that, yes, the dog was definitely allowed to eat in the kitchen, or that, no, the Traynors didn't scrub their front step every day as my mother did, she would purse her lips, glance sideways at my father, and nod with quiet satisfaction, as if I had just confirmed everything she'd suspected about the slovenly ways of the upper classes. (source)slovenly = messy and disordered
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I could tell that Go had gone to meet with the doctor by herself, taken her studious notes in her slovenly handwriting, and she was teary as she tried to decipher what she'd written. (source)slovenly = messy
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She was an active church woman, did not drink, smoke, or carouse, defended herself mightily against Cholly, rose above him in every way, and felt she was fulfilling a mother's role conscientiously when she pointed out their father's faults to keep them from having them, or punished them when they showed any slovenliness, no matter how slight, when she worked twelve to sixteen hours a day to support them.† (source)standard suffix: 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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I don't imagine you'll think it's quite so funny when all the adults say no thank you, I do not want a rude, slovenly child, and you'll have to get back on the train and go to the next station. (source)slovenly = messy and perhaps careless
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As an embodiment of conscious slovenliness, I had been a private for four consecutive years, and my classmates, demonstrating remarkable powers of discrimination, had consistently placed me near the bottom of my class.† (source)
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Wibird was "slovenly and lazy," yet—and here was the wonder—he had great "delicacy" of mind, judgment, and humor. (source)slovenly = untidy or excessively dirty
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The result, in general, is an increase in slovenliness and vagueness.† (source)
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It took them half the night to pitch a slovenly camp, (source)slovenly = prepared sloppily
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It was annoying to come upon that everlasting slovenliness in the farm work against which he had been striving with all his might for so many years.† (source)
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As is becoming my no doubt slovenly habit, I watched a daytime talk show, the kind on which they spill the beans.† (source)
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The room itself is cobwebbed, and dingy with old paint; its floor is strewn with grey sand, in a fashion that has elsewhere fallen into long disuse; and it is easy to conclude, from the general slovenliness of the place, that this is a sanctuary into which womankind, with her tools of magic, the broom and mop, has very infrequent access.† (source)
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