单词 | slovenly written |
释义 | > as lemmasslovenly written With past participles forming adjectives, as slovenly-built, slovenly dressed, slovenly written, etc. ΚΠ 1764 Beauties All Mag. Sel. 3 101/1 A dirty faced, and very slovenly dressed being..appeared. 1838 H. W. Herbert Cromwell I. iii. 44 ‘Give you good evening, Master Cromwell’, he said, addressing himself to the most slovenly-apparelled of the company. 1867 Harper's Mag. Feb. 279/1 The party of men assembled there..sat with their slovenly shod feet dangling over the arms of the chairs. 1886 W. J. Tucker Life E. Europe 236 The ‘cafetier’..was peremptorily addressing a sleek, slovenly-dressed waiter. 1895 New Eng. Kitchen Mag. Apr. 41/1 A slovenly attired woman never knows the self-respect of the well-gowned woman. 1919 I. D. Bennett Making Flower Garden xxii. 226 The mourning dove..is common wherever trees for the construction of its slovenly-built nest grow. 1940 French Rev. 13 423 Poorly-arranged and slovenly written material. 2010 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 25 July Standing at the school gates, he refused to allow in slovenly dressed children. < as lemmas |
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