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

He believed in discipline and hard work, and calling to mind the strict habits of his school days, he made the sloven and surly bachelors walk-a-chalk.

From The Pocahontas-John Smith Story by Edmunds, Pocahontas Wight

There is now no medium between the fine lady with mittens and flowers who dresses your hair, and the dirty sloven of a lodging-house.

From The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Hartley, Florence