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  • noun Plural form of slattern.

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Examples

  • Even the slatterns who sold their bodies for coppers were absent.

    Conan Fan Fiction! Cromsblood 2009

  • Even the slatterns who sold their bodies for coppers were absent.

    Archive 2009-12-01 Reis O'Brien 2009

  • It was more than these slatterns deserved, but circumstances dictated leniency.

    Who Do You Say I Am 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Jesus Christ, Superstar 2008

  • 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.

    Max Blumenthal: The Price of Ted Haggard's Silence 2008

  • 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.

    The slut-shaming goes to 11 2008

  • 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.

    The slut-shaming goes to 11 2008

  • 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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