slattern

Example Sentences

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The hulking loafers and frowsy slatterns, who huddled for warmth in corners, nodded their heads and looked on approvingly.

From Project Gutenberg

Now, literary slatterns are not more frequent than slatterns who are not literary.

From Project Gutenberg

Such long-limbed slatterns were plentiful as blackberries and of as rank a growth all along the Durance.

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In this respect she had always been in strong contrast to her cousins, who, in spite of their taste for pronounced colours, were utter slatterns.

From Project Gutenberg

As fans of Ms. Handler know, she doesn’t discriminate; everyone is fair game: Asians, blacks, slatterns.

From New York Times