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

I was just finishing breakfast; I hadn't done my hair; if you must know, I was rather a sloven at that time.

From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

He believed in discipline and hard work, and calling to mind the strict habits of his school days, he made the sloven and surly bachelors walk-a-chalk.

From The Pocahontas-John Smith Story by Edmunds, Pocahontas Wight