slovenly• Their landlady was fat and slovenly.• On top of that there was the slovenly, almost token, way they had drawn the first covert.• She was fat, slovenly, and out of shape.• Their table manners perfectly reflect the slovenlyappearance.• The aide was hired to keep the governor's slovenlybrother out of the public eye.• Ridgery Butts was a slovenly, poor village, clay and thatchhovelsclustered about its church and windmill.• It was a way to guarantee that slovenly practices and inefficiencies would become even more firmly entrenched.• Aldo gave a slovenlysalute and left.• She was attractive in a plump, slovenly way, with a mass of jet-blackcurls, dark eyes and brown skin.
Originslovenly
(1500-1600)sloven“dirty messy person”((15-21 centuries)), probably from Flemishsloovin“woman of bad character”