Use slovenly in a sentence
Sentences starting with slovenly
- Slovenly and depressing at noonday, it seemed now frankly to have flung off its mask. [9]
Sentences containing slovenly two or more times
- The case is infinitely worse than this; for a slovenly literature, unrebuked and uncorrected, begets slovenly thought and debases our entire intellectual life. [4]
More example sentences with the word slovenly in them
- She quite agreed with him, praised and encouraged him, then she criticised his slovenly deportment, showed him with comical gravity how a warrior ought to stand and walk, called herself his drill-master, and was delighted at the zeal with which he strove to imitate her. [10]
- When he drove to the village his rig was less shabby and slovenly in appearance. [4]
- Like the house, the man seemed dilapidated also: a slovenly, ill-dressed, demoralised figure he looked, even with his face covered. [11]
- The Greek's noble, soldierly figure looked strikingly fine by the slovenly, lank frame of the tall Egyptian. [10]
- He was a small man, slovenly in dress, his tone confidential, his manner wholly void of animation, all his features below the forehead protruding--particularly the apple of his throat--hair without a kink in it, a hand with no grip, a meek, hang-dog countenance. [5]
- The cook was slovenly, and so was the table, and it had no cloth on it. [5]
- Hood and his slovenly management, and sighed, in spite of his doubled income. [9]
- Are there in Sir Walter's novels passages done in good English --English which is neither slovenly or involved? [5]
- Aside from the question of morals, and the absolutely demoralizing manner of treating social questions, most of their stories are vapid and weak beyond expression, and are slovenly in composition, showing neither study, training, nor mental discipline. [4]
- Excuse this slovenly note in pencil, but it fatigues my head and arm much more to sit at a writing-table with pen and ink. [6]
- No high-minded man, no man of right feeling, can contemplate the lumbering and slovenly lying of the present day without grieving to see a noble art so prostituted. [5]
- The corn has lost its ammunition, and stacked arms in a slovenly, militia sort of style. [4]
- There, with a look at once reflective and penetrating, with a figure at once slovenly and alert, was a caricature of Charley Steele as I had known him, and of all his characteristics. [11]
- His marching was incredibly awkward and slovenly, and so was his drill with the pike; but he didn't know it, and was wonderfully pleased with himself, and mightily excited and charmed with the ringing, crisp words of command. [5]
- They grow slovenly in dress, and wear the same hat forever. [6]
- Harris said that if the best writer in the world once got the slovenly habit of doubling up his "haves" he could never get rid of it while he lived. [5]
- At one time he would excite our admiration by the splendor of his outfit, and perhaps the next week he would seem to take equal pleasure in his slovenly or careless appearance. [6]
- When I was dressed for dinner at six-thirty, I was too loose in some places and too tight in others, and altogether I felt slovenly and ill-conditioned. [5]
- I shall become as slovenly a writer as Charles Francis Adams, if I don't look out. [5]
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