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Example sentences for "sloven"

Lexicographically close words:
sloughs; sloughy; slouth; slouthe; slouthfull; slovenliness; slovenly; slow; slowdown; slowe
  1. A sloven in one thing is a sloven in all things.

  2. The whale "can't bear sloven and dirty habits.

  3. The sloven and the dude are both slaves; but in different ways.

  4. The sloven is known by his dirty hands and face, his disheveled hair, and tattered garments.

  5. I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws than with a sloven and unpresentable person.

  6. One'd think you had a sloven for a mother.

  7. The sloven in speech is quite as offensive as a sloven in manner and dress.

  8. Women were made to give our eyes delight; A female sloven is an odious sight.

  9. A long-ear'd beast, and the drink you love best, You call him a sloven in earnest for jest.

  10. Thus to a dean some curate sloven Subscribes, "Dear sir, your brother loving.

  11. Their kitchen methods are ever those of the sloven cook who throws meat into a pot anyhow.

  12. Their staple dishes are stews, boiled greasily: the sloven cook's way of throwing meat into a pot.

  13. But the fear of the Sloven would not be quieted.

  14. When the Sloven heard this, he hung his head.

  15. Even while they were talking, the babble of the multitude drew near, and the Sloven exclaimed, "Our death approaches!

  16. Then Kalelealuaka seized him to put him to death, when the spear of the Sloven pierced the fleshy part of Kalelealuaka's left arm, and in plucking it out the spear-head remained in the wound.

  17. To this the King replied he did not believe that the Sloven was a great warrior, but when the cripple returned he would learn the truth.

  18. Sloven entered with alacrity and found bundles of his wished-for eels and potatoes already cooked and awaiting his disposal.

  19. No, he thought, he did not seriously dislike this fetid sloven beneath him.

  20. And is it true he is such a sloven in dress as they say he is?

  21. As to his being a sloven in dress, is that what they say about him?

  22. In short, Jack Sloven is a dirty boy, and is anything but a credit to the school he belongs to.

  23. I can make a special report on the Sloven Street district, and it ought to pull me through the course.

  24. Jack had been very ready and cheerful about his mission when talking to Varnum, but he had misgivings about it as he took his way to Sloven Street, in the heart of the poorest tenement-house district.

  25. In front of 62 Sloven Street he found a small boy smoking a cigarette, and inquired from him whether Jimmy Haggerty lived within.

  26. They bade her enter their doors and sit in their sloven homes amid the broken things the Italians had left behind them.

  27. But she already wore a dragged expression; and work, far beyond her powers to accomplish, was making a sloven of her.

  28. Then home he'd hasten through the street, To tell about his fall; While, on his little sloven feet, The cause was plain to all.

  29. I now mention a frequent disaster, that, being frequent, was quite enough to make a sloven of any one.

  30. Besides, it was in the philosophy of Aristippus to take either part, and to appear fop or sloven as his humour pleased him, or convenience led him.

  31. A dog's-eared carpet marks the sloven as well as the dog's-eared book.

  32. An untidy person at five-and-twenty, degenerates, very frequently, into a sloven and a boor at fifty.

  33. Lady Mary:' Montague, who was as great a sloven as a beauty.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sloven" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bungler; crone; frump; hog; idler; malingerer; mussy; pig; shirker; slacker; slattern; slob; slouch; slovenly; slug; slut; swine; trifler; trollop