slatternly

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English

Etymology

From slattern +‎ -ly.

Adjective

slatternly (comparative more slatternly, superlative most slatternly)

  1. Appropriate to or characteristic of a slattern.
    • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 9, in Vanity Fair , London: Bradbury and Evans , published 1848, →OCLC:
      Being a light-complexioned woman, she wore light clothes, as most blondes will, and appeared, in preference, in draggled sea-green, or slatternly sky-blue.
    • 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
      The dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing glimpses, with its muddy ways, and slatternly passengers, and its lamps, which had never been extinguished or had been kindled afresh to combat this mournful reinvasion of darkness, seemed, in the lawyer's eyes, like a district of some city in a nightmare.
    • 2015 April 4, Judith Woods, “I knew it! Spring cleaning is bad for your family's health ”, in The Daily Telegraph‎, archived from the original on 9 April 2015:
      Am I alone in feeling smug (if slatternly) about the news that super-clean homes are a breeding ground for infection? Apparently, all that bleach is bad not just for germs but for children's immune systems, too, and paradoxically causes more disease than it prevents.

Adverb

slatternly (comparative more slatternly, superlative most slatternly)

  1. In a slatternly manner.
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