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Recent Examples of slatternly
Adjective
This diorama includes a brawny male wax figure wearing Pampers who is stretched in agony on a rack, alongside a slatternly brunette with a suggestively slit skirt who is being flogged. — John Phillips, Car and Driver, 9 Jan. 2023 An influential Peruvian industrialist named Enrique is photographed in flagrante amid a heap of slatternly prostitutes. — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2018 By sticking to Patti’s second-best status, and the deferred dreams of her slatternly mother, Barb (Bridget Everett), and her widowed, infirm grandmother, Nana (Cathy Moriarty), Jasper shows his condescension toward their toughness. — Armond White, National Review, 18 Aug. 2017 The one who took best actress was Marie Mullen, who portrayed Maureen, a 40-year-old virgin shackled to her imperious, housebound mother, Mag (the splendidly slatternly Anna Manahan). — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slatternly
  1. slovenly
  2. filthy
  3. dowdy
  4. uncombed
  5. shaggy
  6. squalid
  7. dingy
  8. grimy
Adjective
  • Slough House is headed by the slovenly, flatulent, and frequently intoxicated Jackson Lamb (Gary Oldman), who routinely heaps verbal abuse on his staff but is nonetheless a brilliant spymaster in his own smelly way.
    — Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 24 Dec. 2024
  • Corruption within the organization, after all, is as much a part of the show as Jackson Lamb’s slovenly habits and horrible diet.
    — Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2024
Definition of slovenly
Adjective
  • In early modern Europe, the filthiest trades (such as tanning) were branded nuisances and forced out of cities and closer to those living at society’s margins.
    — Scott W. Stern, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2025
  • The beat is straight up filthy, as are the lyrics, written from the point of view of a seductress who is simultaneously a literal murderer.
    — James Factora, Them, 7 Mar. 2025
Definition of filthy
Adjective
  • Memorably dowdy fashion notwithstanding, the juicy role — part Nurse Ratched, part Jack Torrance — launched Bates into the Hollywood ether following years of false starts.
    — EW Staff, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Jane and Kit stand on either side, looking dowdy in black dresses and veils (not really an Irish thing).
    — Cullen Murphy, airmail.news, 15 Feb. 2025
Definition of dowdy
Adjective
  • The short, brittle, uncombed hair under her hat gave her crow’s wings on either side of her face.
    — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
  • After noting that people have made negative comments about her makeup-free face, the Grammy Award-winning rapper recorded a video fresh off the wake up, showing off her hyperpigmentation, uncombed hair, and all.
    — Sydney Clarke, refinery29.com, 10 Feb. 2021
Definition of uncombed
Adjective
  • Natasha Lyonne, who’s back as shaggy amateur detective Charlie Cale, was floored watching Erivo dip in and out of so many roles, which include a DJ, a professor, an artist, and an apple picker.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2025
  • Close on either side were eerie woods flooded with shallow swamp water, the trees’ shaggy trunks festooned with air plants and the occasional ghost orchid.
    — Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of shaggy
Adjective
  • At its height, the war displaced abou 90% of the population, mostly within the territory, where hundreds of thousands packed into squalid tent camps and schools repurposed as shelters.
    — Samy Magdy, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Around 90% of Gaza's population has been displaced, often multiple times, with hundreds of thousands of people living in squalid tent camps or shuttered schools.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 30 Jan. 2025
Definition of squalid
Adjective
  • Basketball was so unimportant and the school was so chintzy that the athletic director, who also was the head football coach, made Sloan pay $107 out of his own pocket to have carpet installed in his dingy office.
    — Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Carved out of the ground floor of the airport’s parking garage, this space was a temporary replacement for the dingy, crowded, original domestic terminal built 34 years prior, which was not handicap-accessible and had an inadequate baggage facility and a troublesome security layout.
    — Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 15 Mar. 2025
Definition of dingy
Adjective
  • Because Mike Madigan -- legendarily grimy Illinois House speaker and all-powerful master of Democratic state politics until his 2021 resignation from office -- has finally been convicted by a federal jury of ten felonies: bribery, conspiracy, and wire fraud, among other matters.
    — Jeffrey Blehar, National Review, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Depending on how grimy your air fryer oven walls are, a soft cloth dipped in a mixture of water and vinegar might be enough to effectively degrease.
    — Emily Farris, Bon Appétit, 21 Feb. 2025
Definition of grimy

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