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The intent for him was to start as a slovenly, annoying neighbor, but under Molly’s gaze transform into something more special, warmer and open.

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You could be assigned a slovenly party animal who makes your life miserable or a studious bookworm you don’t see all semester.

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He was a favorite punching bag of the mainstream media, a slovenly suburban Ahab doomed to fail.

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Hannah is as entitled and narcissistic as the others, but slovenly in a way that, for some reason, made her seem . . . what’s the word?

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Oscar winner Gary Oldman’s slovenly Jackson Lamb runs Slough House, where bickering loser agents compete to redeem their trashed reputations.

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