slattern
Example Sentences
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This is definitely the feel I’m going for – not slattern.
From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2021
The woman who was a natural comic slattern in England People Very Nice became an unwavering, intelligent presence in Tribes.
From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2013
In Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre,” Jane’s school friend Helen Burns is constantly in trouble, regarded by many of the teachers as a slattern and a “dirty, disagreeable girl.”
From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2010
Jean Smart is a good comic actress, but what can you do when you're written as a one-dimensional slattern, held in contempt by your hipster child?
From Time • Jan. 8, 2010
"Then I must apologize for having called you a slattern, Lady Una," she said, as if each word of it were bitter sawdust that she spat from her mouth.
From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman
