Meaning & use
Slatternly
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Untidy, slovenly, or careless in dress, habits, or housekeeping (a dated and often disapproving term).
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The novel describes the boarding house's slatternly, cluttered rooms.
Visitors were put off by the shop's slatternly appearance.
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This is a dated word, historically applied disparagingly and almost exclusively to women; it is rarely used in contemporary English outside older literature.
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