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  • 'Slovenly' parents wearing pyjamas on the school run

    EducationNews.org 2010

  • Among these were “Swinging the Arms, and all other awkward gestures,” “Drumming with feet or hands in Company,” “All actions that have the most remote tendency to Indelicacy,” “All instances of that ill-judged Familiarity, which breeds contempt,” and “every thing which may be called Sluttish or Slovenly.”

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Slovenly in dress, he stank of alcohol and always needed a shave.

    D Magazine - The Truth about Viet Nam Vets 2010

  • Slovenly, under-dressed individuals all over the country wear them, to no particular opprobrium that I'm aware of.

    Alfred Gingold: The Croc-Up 2009

  • Slovenly tourists would generate mess and extra drudgery for some underling.

    Art Gallery EAGEAGEAG 2009

  • Slovenly description, spin-doctoring, and rhetorical fog.

    Quakers in Spain superversive 2006

  • Didn't we swear that we would NEVER EVER become Slovenly Mom?

    Self-Portrait Of Truthiness 2008

  • Didn't we swear that we would NEVER EVER become Slovenly Mom?

    Archive 2008-03-09 2008

  • Slovenly Clinton strategist Mark Penn's recent appearance on Hardball with Obama and Edwards advisors has been constantly replayed, ostensibly because of their conflict over who was injecting Obama's admitted cocaine use into the election debate.

    Stephen Kaus: Hillary Clinton Bucks the Spirit of the 22nd Amendment 2008

  • Slovenly description, spin-doctoring, and rhetorical fog.

    The most inaccurate quiz ever superversive 2006

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