slattern
noun
a slovenly, untidy woman or girl.
slatternliness
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a word derived from
slattern.
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a word derived from
slatternly.
slatternlyadjectiveslovenly and untidy.
Example Sentences
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If the truth is to be owned, Miss Stanbury gave the poor young woman no credit for her new simplicity, but put down the deficiency to the charge of domestic slatternliness.
From He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
In the other chair sat a young woman with fine dark eyes and glossy black hair, whose appearance would have been prepossessing had it not been spoiled by her slatternliness and cheap finery.
From Prescott of Saskatchewan by W. Herbert Dunton
Despite the special muslin of that day she had traces of the slatternliness of which Mrs. Baines had never been able to cure her.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
They maintained that it resembled the fat servant-girl with a long neck, who a short time ago had been dismissed on account of her slatternliness, and they called it, after her, "Black Susy."
From Dame Care by Bertha Overbeck
The room in fact was as depressing from its slatternliness as from its atmosphere of erudition.
From The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
