Both Uses
slovenly
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
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- He was clad in a professional but rather slovenly fashion, for his frock-coat was dingy and his trousers frayed.†
Chpt 1 *
- There is as much difference to my eyes between the leaded bourgeois type of a Times article and the slovenly print of an evening half-penny paper as there could be between your negro and your Esquimau.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(slovenly) messy or dirty;
or:
excessively careless or casual - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)