sloven
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The agency’s report on her said she “had a very poor personal appearance, her clothes were sloven and dirty, and her hair was uncombed and matty, and she had a very offensive body odor.”
From Washington Times • Nov. 25, 2018
Wouk described his hero as a cigar-smoking Kentucky coal trucker, huge, thick-featured and rustic, "a hulking sloven of twenty-six who had written an ugly bellowing dinosaur of a novel."
From Time Magazine Archive
Leaving traces of her sloven unhousebroken self all over the county.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
He was such a sloven, as if he had trusted to his genius as a cloak for everything that could disgust you in his person....
From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by More, Paul Elmer
Slov′enly, like a sloven: negligent of neatness or cleanliness: disorderly: done in an untidy manner.—adv. negligently.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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