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[ adjective ] negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt
Examples "filled the door with her frowzy bulk" "frowzy white hair" "slovenly appearance" Used in print (Guy Endore, Voltaire! Voltaire!...)`` But in such a slovenly condition '' . `` What is slovenly about me '' ? (Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)The same month that Alastor was published , Murray sold twenty thousand copies of The_Siege_of_Corinth , a slovenly bit of Byronism that even Shelley 's generosity rebelled at . Related terms |
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