slattern
a slovenly, untidy woman or girl.
a slut; harlot.
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How to use slattern in a sentence
It is true that Nanny was a slattern, but only because she married into slavery.
A Window in Thrums | J. M. BarrieThe easy human slattern way would be to sink beneath the burden.
I, Mary MacLane | Mary MacLane"I would like to see Mr. Good," said Judith to the round-shouldered slattern who answered the bell.
Thirty | Howard Vincent O'BrienFrom day to day she sank nearer to the level of that abject, shameless creature whose dress drags in the gutter—a dirty slattern.
Germinie Lacerteux | Edmond and Jules de GoncourtI took a sort of hate against her, she was such a slattern and so inquisitive.
A Book of Ghosts | Sabine Baring-Gould
British Dictionary definitions for slattern
/ (ˈslætən) /
a slovenly woman or girl; slut
Origin of slattern
1Derived forms of slattern
- slatternly, adjective
- slatternliness, noun
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