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- noun Plural form of
slattern .
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Examples
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Even the slatterns who sold their bodies for coppers were absent.
Conan Fan Fiction! Cromsblood 2009
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Even the slatterns who sold their bodies for coppers were absent.
Archive 2009-12-01 Reis O'Brien 2009
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It was more than these slatterns deserved, but circumstances dictated leniency.
Who Do You Say I Am 2010
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The conservatives think that second trimester abortions are wanted only by slatterns who wake up from their drug-addled stupors one morning and say, Hey, I forgot to get my abortion.
"There is a negative image associated with abortion … and it’s going to carry with it a stigma that will be associated with your facility." Ann Althouse 2009
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Doug had seen such youthful slatterns over the summers since his own pubescence, but owing to his fear of the males of their blood, and also a certain delicacy of taste that gave preference to flesh of better breeding, he had not had a struggle with himself to abstain from making a personal approach.
The Houseguest Thomas Berger 2008
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Pro-Obama writers were more explicit in accusing the McCain camp of racism, laughably suggesting that the ad's producers had chosen Hilton and Spears because they were slatterns of pallor.
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With the national media salivating over diaper-clad astronauts and lobotomized slatterns overdosing on diet shakes, the sad saga of Ted Haggard has been all but forgotten.
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Pro-Obama writers were more explicit in accusing the McCain camp of racism, laughably suggesting that the ad's producers had chosen Hilton and Spears because they were slatterns of pallor.
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Pro-Obama writers were more explicit in accusing the McCain camp of racism, laughably suggesting that the ad's producers had chosen Hilton and Spears because they were slatterns of pallor.
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So I painted only the ideal aspects of it -- pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers -- only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.
Fine Art Friday M-mv 2007
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