• Slatternly

    Full definition of slatternly

    Adjective

    slatternly

    1. Appropriate to or characteristic of a slattern.
      • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr HydeThe dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing glimpses, with its muddy ways, and slatternly passengers, and its lamps, which had never been extinguished or had been kindled afresh to combat this mournful reinvasion of darkness, seemed, in the lawyer's eyes, like a district of some city in a nightmare.

    Adverb

    slatternly

    1. In a slatternly manner.
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