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

Cruel, corrupt, lazy, and sloven of soul, he found there what he knew best because it was his own.

From The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Raleigh, Henry

A man who is deprived of the possibility of revenge must lose his self-respect as he has, and degenerate into a sloven.

From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Sudermann, Hermann