Etymology
Origin of slobby
Example Sentences
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From “The Flintstones” on, prime-time cartoons have also engaged in the dishy wife, slobby husband template.
From New York Times
I know I am not perfect, and I do try to be considerate of my grandma, knowing she is older and needs help, but I don't think I am slobby or hard to live with.
From Washington Post
Once, as a teen, I created a replica of my real-life home to see what would happen, and it generated such an accurate facsimile of our family dynamic – dad yelling at my slobby brother to get off the couch, me arguing with my mum in the kitchen, me writing furiously in a diary late into the night – that I started to wonder if we weren’t all in a video game all of the time.
From The Guardian
The first film produced by MTV, Joe’s Apartment was about a slobby man whose home is invaded by an army of talking cockroaches.
From The Guardian
He is worried that this is the beginning of a “downward spiral” for me into a messy, slobby woman with permanent razor stubble.
From Slate
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