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Definition of Slovenry
1. n. Slovenliness.
Definition of Slovenry
1. Noun. (archaic) dirtiness; uncleanliness ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slovenry
1. slovenliness [n SLOVENRIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slovenry
Literary usage of Slovenry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr. of by William Shakespeare (1807)
"... There 's not a piece of feather in our host, (Good argument, I hope, we shall
not fly,) Ant; time hath worn us into slovenry: But, by the mass, ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1847)
"Well, if I am a sloven, which I hardly know how to admit, and if I am a little
in love with a kind of genteel slovenry, how came I by it ? ..."
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