sloven

Example Sentences

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The agency’s report on her said she “had a very poor personal appearance, her clothes were sloven and dirty, and her hair was uncombed and matty, and she had a very offensive body odor.”

From Washington Times

Leaving traces of her sloven unhousebroken self all over the county.

From Literature

He, God, had made a sloven and unforgivable error in judgment: designing an imperfect universe.

From Literature

The names of the teams - "kings, royals, knights" - reveal a lack of imagination and a sloven admiration for colonial and aristocratic titles.

From BBC

He was such a sloven, as if he had trusted to his genius as a cloak for everything that could disgust you in his person....

From Project Gutenberg