Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
slovenliness .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Slovenliness.
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- noun obsolete
slovenliness
Etymologies
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Examples
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How pleasant it is to be married rich, I thought, as I arose and strolled into the library, where everything was elegant and prim and neat, with no scraps of paper and piles of newspapers or evidences of literary slovenness on the table, and no books in attractive disorder, and where I seemed to see the legend staring at me from all the walls,
Backlog Studies Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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How pleasant it is to be married rich, I thought, as I arose and strolled into the library, where everything was elegant and prim and neat, with no scraps of paper and piles of newspapers or evidences of literary slovenness on the table, and no books in attractive disorder, and where I seemed to see the legend staring at me from all the walls, "No smoking."
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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