sloven

• The woman in her white smock, every single hair of the neckless head the same hue of dyed black, without variation, was gloomy, sloven-footed in orthopedic white shoes. —  Mr. Sammler's Planet
• Not, indeed, in dress; for Parsons was a sloven, and Tazewell was neat in his dress, which was in winter, during the last twenty years, a full suit of black cloth, and in summer he was usually attired in white drilling with a light linen coat and fancy vest. —  Discourse of the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell
• Fox had already assumed the sloven--the whole faction followed; and the ghosts of the old oppositionists, in their tie wigs and silver-laced coats, would have been horrified by the sight of the shock-headed, leather-breeched, and booted generation who howled and harangued on the left side of the Speaker's chair from 1789 to 1806. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
• Yet why a woman should be expected to endure a sloven, with more patience than a man, and magnanimously to govern herself, I cannot conceive; unless it be supposed arrogant in her to look for respect as well as a maintenance. —  Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• It is as much a sign of being no gentleman to over-dress as to dress like a sloven, but, as in every other case, the secret is to find the golden mean. —  Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life

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