He came into Bonfanti's with us, and afterwards insisted on escorting us to our various destinations; not, however, without manifold and deep lamentations on his slovenly appearance and dirty gloves.
Boucher with all his faults was a grand decorative artist of extraordinary versatility, but the loose habits and careless methods of his later days are reflected in slovenly drawing and waning powers of invention.
The artist's slovenly execution of the work brought him a well-deserved rebuke from the Marchioness.
The writer of the book of Mark passes it off in a careless, slovenly manner, with a single dash of the pen, as if he was tired of romancing, or ashamed of the story.
For example, many of the pollutive dribbles along Rock Creek and other metropolitan watercourses are based in clearly illegal practices and hence slovenly inspection and enforcement of existing regulations.
My impression is, that it was managed in a very slovenly manner by her lawyer; and some of his oversights we may repair in a suit instituted by yourself.
The clothes he had last worn were thrown carelessly about, unsmoothed, unbrushed; the scanty articles of furniture were out of their proper places; slovenly discomfort marked the death-chamber.
It is, however, apt to be a slovenly gait, which, though easy to the rider, should hardly be permitted.
Culleyang is a village containing about eight houses; it is not stockaded, and has the usual slovenlyappearance of Singpho villages.
The slovenlyand patchy omniscience of the partly educated, leads them to believe that they know enough not to believe.
If it were merely slovenly and neglected, however, all this might be endured.
The life of the young artist in France, we are told, is the merriest, most slovenly existence possible.
He wrote in constant dread of falling into slovenly colloquialisms of style, and was not ashamed to leave on his letters the marks of this anxiety, in corrections and interlineations.
His plays are slovenly and careless in construction, and he puts classical allusions into the mouths of milkmaids and serving boys, with the grotesque pedantry and want of keeping common among the {107} playwrights of the early stage.
He was burly in person, and slovenly in dress, his shirt-frill always covered with snuff.
He settled himself in the townships bordering on the seignories, and brought a fresh soil and improved cultivation to compete with the worn-out and slovenlyfarm of the habitant.
The ear of the child becomes used to refined intonations, and slovenly language will grow more and more disagreeable to him.
He always had a cloudy, smudgy, slovenly look, like a slate half-washed, that made one feel how nice it would be if he could be scrubbed inside and out with hot water and soap.
We have said that the lyrical effusions interspersed throughout the "Drama of Exile," are very slovenly and defective in point of rhyme.
Our habits of thought are so slovenly in these matters, and our vocabulary so poor and confused, that I find it difficult to make my exact meaning clear without some insistence.
If we are content with an ungainly fly, we will be satisfied with inferiority of rod and tackle; and although the fish may not see the difference, the angler may become, from neglecting one point, slovenly in all.
He is but a slovenly worshipper at the shrine of the good Saint Izaak, who casts aside his panoply after the last bout of autumn and gives no thought to it again till spring makes her annual jail-delivery of imprisoned life.
The slovenly girl came to do the room; Susan sent her away, sat by the window gazing out over the river and downstream.
The dents, scratches and old paint scales on the door, the dust-streaked windows, the slovenly hang of the imitation lace window curtains proclaimed the cheap middle-class lodging or boarding house of the humblest grade.
It was dingy and dirty; the walls and plastering were peeling; the servants were slovenly and fresh.
They came into the slovenly precincts of the court, and the pigs stared at them from the palings, as their progenitors had stared, years before, at Frank Hazeldean.
A slovenly hero like Cromwell is a paradox in nature, and a marvel in history.
Randal continued to gaze, and his mind's eye conjured up the contrast of his slovenly shabby home, with all its neglected appurtenances.
I sat in the midst of it with great delight, for the woman's benevolent, happy countenance almost converted her slovenly and lazy way of leaving all things to take care of themselves into a comfort and a blessing.
If you do, you will give him a slovenly carriage and habits, and lessen his zeal for the sport.
Slovenly to employ right arm both for "Drop" and "Toho.
In vain did I look for the herald of slovenly farming--the rusty plow in the field, left where the animals had been taken from under the yoke.
The colonel in charge of the work told me that he expected to raise food enough for a division, which should not have been difficult, seeing that three acres ought to produce food enough for any man, even if tilled in a slovenly way.
Commission-men were licensed by the government, and when food regulation became a little more stringent they were obliged to make some sort of a slovenly report on the quantities they handled.
The immaculate cleanliness which I had learned to associate with them was replaced by the most slovenly sweeping.
The Turk was inclined to do things in a slovenly manner.
What the soldiers did in the trenches the civilian population did at home--a little half-heartedly at times, a little slovenly occasionally, but reliably at all times.
