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Definition of Slovenliest
1. slovenly [adj] - See also: slovenly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slovenliest
Literary usage of Slovenliest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1849)
"... fellows in the borough, »ave the Quaker, who was perhaps the slovenliest fellow
in the world, and had probably, for that reason, taken up his abode at ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1875)
"We will not linger about Kingston, once, if old accounts, Mr. Bigelow's included,
be true, one of the slovenliest, dirtiest, unhealthiest towns in the West ..."
3. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1904)
"... save in the case of the famous copy of Anderson's Poets (shabbiest and
slovenliest treasure-house of treasures immortal and priceless! ..."
4. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1917)
"... save in the case of the famous copy of Anderson's Poets (shabbiest and
slovenliest treasure-house of treasures immortal and priceless! ..."
5. Impressions of America and the American Churches by George Lewis (1845)
"which indeed they did in the slovenliest possible style. Every stroke of a hoe
in our potato fields would have implied thrice the muscular energy, ..."
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