slatternly
adverb
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L199568 on Wikidata ↗adjective
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L340498 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English slattern Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -ly English -ly English slatternly From slattern + -ly (adjectival suffix).
- Appropriate to or characteristic of a slattern.
“Being a light-complexioned woman, she wore light clothes, as most blondes will, and appeared, in preference, in draggled sea-green, or slatternly sky-blue.”
“The 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 rëinvasion of darkness, seemed, in the lawyer's eyes, like a district of some city in a nightmare.”
adv
Etymology: Etymology tree English slattern Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English slatternly From slattern + -ly (adverbial suffix).
- In the manner of a slattern.