slovenly
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
slovenly
adj 1: negligent of neatness especially in dress and person;
habitually dirty and unkempt; "filled the door with her
frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly appearance"
[syn: {frowsy}, {frowzy}, {slovenly}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Slovenly \Slov"en*ly\, a.
1. Having the habits of a sloven; negligent of neatness and
order, especially in dress.
[1913 Webster]
A slovenly, lazy fellow, lolling at his ease.
--L'Estrange.
[1913 Webster]
2. Characteristic of a sloven; lacking neatness and order;
evincing negligence; as, slovenly dress.
[1913 Webster]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "slovenly":
barbarous, beat-up, bedraggled, blowsy, blowzy, botched, bungling,
careless, chintzy, clumsy, deficient, dilapidated, dingy, dirty,
disheveled, dowdy, down-at-heel, drabbletailed, draggled,
draggletailed, dusty, erroneous, faulty, frowsy, frowzy, frumpish,
frumpy, grimy, grubby, grungy, half-assed, haphazard, hit-and-miss,
hit-or-miss, imprecise, improper, in rags, incorrect, infelicitous,
informal, loose, lumpen, messy, miry, muddy, mussy, negligent,
poky, promiscuous, ragged, raggedy, raunchy, ruinous, scraggly,
scruffy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slack, slapdash, slatternly,
sleazy, slipshod, slipshoddy, slobbery, sloppy, sloven, sluttish,
smirchy, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, solecistic, sooty,
sordid, squalid, tacky, tattered, uncombed, unfastidious,
ungrammatic, unkempt, unneat, unsightly, unthorough, untidy
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