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 • 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

I could see then how pretty she had been in a large-eyed, short-lipped way, and how charming in her youth had been the inconsequence which as the mistress of a family made her a sloven.

From A Woman of Genius by Austin, Mary Hunter

Surrounded by a hinterland where sloven illiteracy fostered lawlessness, that fire burned in houses that stood up as monuments both of practical utility and surprising beauty.

From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville