Slatternliness

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Slatternly habits or condition.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The quality or state of being slatternly; slovenliness; untidiness.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The condition of being slatternly, or of being a slattern
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. in the manner of a slattern
  • Word Usage
    "The author, Edith Mirrielees, supported her indictment with a number of familiar charges: "slatternliness in the use of words, slapdashness in the shaping of sentences ... stories infected by the implausible, the unprepared for, the contradictory"; no gift for humor, a shortage of gusto, and the absence of substance."
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