Example Sentences

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Unseemly it were to me to show myself sluttish before these lords; let me find time for a bath at least.

From The Water of the Wondrous Isles by Morris, William

Hitherto he had lived in sluttish comfort on his own land, content with the little it brought in, and proud to be the friend of Gourlay, whom everybody feared.

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas

She had not troubled to dress herself, but wore a dirty dressing-gown, and her hair was tied in a sluttish knot.

From The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

They are not very cleanly in their houses, and but sluttish in dressing their meat.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William

He was ugly and laughably disfigured with the smallpox; and while nature had been so niggardly with him from the first, his personal habits were even sluttish.

From Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Stevenson, Robert Louis