slattern

Example Sentences

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This is definitely the feel I’m going for – not slattern.

From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2021

The woman who was a natural comic slattern in England People Very Nice became an unwavering, intelligent presence in Tribes.

From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2013

In Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre,” Jane’s school friend Helen Burns is constantly in trouble, regarded by many of the teachers as a slattern and a “dirty, disagreeable girl.”

From New York Times • Dec. 21, 2010

Jean Smart is a good comic actress, but what can you do when you're written as a one-dimensional slattern, held in contempt by your hipster child?

From Time • Jan. 8, 2010

The bed was lumpy, the walls dirty yellow, the curtains like the underskirts of a slattern.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck