sloven

Example Sentences

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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

It had been an endless pile of luggage, and we apologized for it, and continued to say, "There's another piece, or two, or more, outside on the sloven...."

From Westward with the Prince of Wales by Newton, W. Douglas (Wilfrid Douglas)

Over a scurf of rocks the tide Wanders inward far and wide, Lifting the sea-weed's sloven hair, Filling the pools and foaming there, Sighing, sighing everywhere.

From Sea Poems by Rice, Cale Young