Let him whose own enunciation is chemically free from localism or slovenliness cast the first stone even at "mebbe" and "ruther.
Mere slovenliness of pronunciation is a totally different matter.
In spite of this slovenliness in detail there is colour and light in all recollections of Baghdad's dusty streets.
Yet they will not bear any close inspection, without revealing themselves as monuments of slovenliness and dirt.
He did so with the utmost delicacy, for it was all an indirect indictment of my own slovenliness and sinful carelessness.
Books were strewn here and there, but there was no slovenlinessor untidiness; and, ha!
It has been noticed how Richard seems to manifest in some scenes a slovenliness of intrigue that might be a stumbling-block to the general impression of his character.
At last the Beau was reduced to the level of that slovenliness which he had considered as the next step to perdition.
The Beau went to the opera, as usual, and drove away from it clear off to Dover, whence the packet took him to safety and slovenlinessin the ancient town of Calais.
But we reclaim youths from the slovenliness of their native village or workshop and make them tidy and mannerly citizens.
No amount of reasoning can convince me that outward slovenliness is not a sign of inward and moral supineness.
And over all the same air of personal slovenliness and ill-breeding.
And Laura, scanning him with some closeness, noticed with distaste a good many signs of personal slovenliness and ill-breeding.
Sainte Croix does indeed deserve a visit from the curious, though the lovers of neatness would be somewhat shocked at the extraordinary state of filth and slovenliness in which the area of ruin where it stands is left.
At home he had fallen into the slovenliness that marks a disappointed old age.
His thin skin and sensitive nerves make him more conscious of roughness and slovenliness than others.
The truth of the matter seems to be that extra care as regards personal habits and general appearance is, as a rule, indicative of a certain alertness of mind, which shows itself antagonistic to slovenliness of all kinds.
Usually these go together, neatness of attire indicating a sanitary care of the person, while outward slovenliness suggests a carelessness for appearance that probably goes deeper than the clothes covering the body.
It is not the shabbiness that is unavoidable, but the slovenliness that is avoidable, that the world frowns upon.
The loose sentence gives ease and naturalness, but these desirable qualities may easily change to slovenliness of expression in the hands of a careless writer.
On the other hand, her dirt and slovenliness were exactly what I had been led to expect it would be from my first inspection of the cabin.
Whatever else might be said, a reputation for slovenliness and untruthfulness would be scarcely likely to help me in my career.
Mere hastiness or slovenliness of work is not identical with the effect of inability to achieve mechanical neatness.
I have had plenty of opportunity of testing this slovenliness in the collection of manuscripts of portions of Lavengro that have come into my possession.
Mahomet writing the Koran on mutton bones as an analogy to his own “slovenliness of manuscript.
He did reform operatic performances by insisting on precision and intelligence in place of slovenliness and stupidity, on enthusiasm for art in place of stolid indifference; and he did as much in the concert-room.
Callous indifference to the beauty of fine music and completeslovenliness in every detail of the rendering of it went hand in hand.
This inconsistency is here, however, only a side point--a passing illustration of the slovenliness of the positivist logic.
Nor, again, is Mill right in saying that this contradiction is due to 'slovenliness of thought.
But almost always when you came near, the slovenliness of the dwelling and the rude way in which objects around it were treated, when so little care would have presented a charming whole, were very repulsive.
The soil, the slovenliness is washed out of every calling by its touch.
Francesco Volterra complained to me many times about the slovenliness of the masons; he says that, working by contract (a cottimo), they were afraid they should get no reward for the trouble of bringing the group to the surface.
She may excuse, or overlook, carelessness or even slovenliness in his personal appearance, if she is very fond of him, but she would like him much more if he were neat and tidy and tasteful.
He was noted, too, for extreme slovenliness in attire.
Slovenliness is a vice; for it is an open confession that a man is too weak to make his surroundings the expression of his tastes and wishes, and has allowed his surroundings to run over him and drag him down to their own level.
Slovenliness is slavery to the hideous and repulsive.
As a precaution against slovenliness you should cultivate freshness and accuracy.
There was another reason for my not employing her to which I have not so far referred, the reason really of her slovenliness and bad temper and gradual deterioration.
Slovenliness in planning is as bad as slovenliness in expression.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slovenliness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: botch; bungling; carelessness; impurity; looseness; negligence; squalor
