noun. The character or practices of a slut; lack of cleanliness as regards one's person or domestic surroundings; sluttery.

noun. The characteristic of being sluttish.

noun. in the manner of a slattern

"It was Gourlay's pride in his house that made him harsher to his wife than others, since her sluttishness was a constant offence to the order in which he loved to have his dear possessions."

slovenliness