All 3 Uses
slovenly
in
The Call of the Wild
(Edited)
- When driven with his mates to the new owners' camp, Buck saw a slipshod and slovenly affair, tent half stretched, dishes unwashed, everything in disorder; also, he saw a woman.
p. 98.3slovenly = messy
- It took them half the night to pitch a slovenly camp,
p. 107.5 *slovenly = prepared sloppily
- It took them half the night to pitch a slovenly camp, and half the morning to break that camp and get the sled loaded in fashion so slovenly that for the rest of the day they were occupied in stopping and rearranging the load.
p. 107.6slovenly = carelessly disordered
Definitions:
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(1)
(slovenly) messy or dirty;
or:
excessively careless or casual - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)