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sloven

[sluhv-uhn] / ˈslʌv ən /
NOUN
slob
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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 Nov. 25, 2018

Wouk described his hero as a cigar-smoking Kentucky coal trucker, huge, thick-featured and rustic, "a hulking sloven of twenty-six who had written an ugly bellowing dinosaur of a novel."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison

How this lack of symmetry should be explained, whether due to sloven work or the result of the effort to adapt the church to the lines of the earlier church of SS.

From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander

How sloven like the school-boy looks, Who daubs his books at play; Give him a new one?

From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles




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