Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who is habitually careless in personal appearance or work.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person who is careless of dress or negligent of cleanliness; a person who is habitually negligent of neatness and order; also, a careless and lazy person.
- noun A knave; a rascal.
- noun Same as
Slovene .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A man or boy habitually negligent of neathess and order; -- the correlative term to
slattern , orslut .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A man or boy habitually negligent of neatness and order; -- the male equivalent of
slattern , orslut ;untidy ,dirty . - noun
low , base,lewd - noun obsolete immoral
woman
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a coarse obnoxious person
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As to his dress in general, he cannot indeed be called a sloven, but sometimes he is too gaudy, at other times too plain, to be uniformly elegant.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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As to his dress in general, he cannot indeed be called a sloven, but sometimes he is too gaudy, at other times too plain, to be uniformly elegant.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Samuel Richardson 1725
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They are the most unpatriotic, sloven, knuckle-draggers I've ever seen.
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Tim and Eric are perhaps the most notorious for aping the style of public access programs, showcasing the sloven nature of the worst television has to offer, but they have something original to say, to express.
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This sloven real life jabba the hut is really a nuisance to society, but he has his moments of entertainment. jvoe Says:
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The others would purse their lips and say that it could happen to anyone and not everyone always had a suitable piece of handwork ready, but their tone and looks said all too clearly that this woman was a sloven.
Chitambo - 2 David McDuff 2010
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The others would purse their lips and say that it could happen to anyone and not everyone always had a suitable piece of handwork ready, but their tone and looks said all too clearly that this woman was a sloven.
Archive 2010-08-01 David McDuff 2010
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Obviously the most problematic is the one about people who have unkempt or sloven appearances, which is not only highly subjective but also have only a tenuous at best relationship to potential misuse of firearms.
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I learned Lambaneish insults meaning slattern, sloven, idler, lackwit.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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I learned Lambaneish insults meaning slattern, sloven, idler, lackwit.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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