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 Translation for 'slovenly' from English to Spanish
ADJ   slovenly | slovenlier | slovenliest
SYNO frowsy | frowzy | slovenly
descuidado {adj}slovenly [person / action: careless]
desaliñado {adj}slovenly [person: appearance]
guiñapo {m} [persona degradada]slovenly person
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Usage Examples English
  • The ballet is an ironic tale of slovenly work in a Soviet factory.
  • Dag style is not by necessity slovenly. A dag may, for example, choose to wear textures that feel nice regardless of how they look or wear something they have become attached to even if it's old and worn out.
  • He was extremely neglectful of his duties and lacking in common sense, and the "Ōkagami" calls him a "slovenly man" (如泥人).
  • Unpunctual and slovenly in his hospital duties, in 1813 Keate resigned his appointment at St George's.
  • Frank Daley of the "Ottawa Journal" characterized the film as a "slovenly pot-boiler" whose "acting, script and directing are amateurish and often painful", while Jamie Portman of the "Calgary Herald" wrote that the film had an awful screenplay, but that Forsyth's direction was better than his screenwriting.

  • Josiah Wedgwood visited The Indeo Pottery on 31 May 1775, commenting "it is a poor trifling concern, and conducted in a wretched slovenly manner.
  • The slovenly Oscar Madison was reportedly based on Tebet's onetime roommate, songwriter Sammy Cahn.
  • The somewhat slovenly camp follower who accompanied the troops, has evolved into, a still on the Prussian army-inspired, show dance group.
  • The character appeared again in the 2002 film "Red Dragon", this time portrayed by Philip Seymour Hoffman as overweight and slovenly, closer to Harris's conception.
  • Gardiner did not meet with success in his new profession, and became slovenly in his habits and a great snuff-taker.

  • Yazmacıyan used scenery, color harmonies, and subjects that are of very close resemblance to Mıgırdiç Civanyan (1848–1906). His brushstrokes however are a little more careless and slovenly.
  • Frederick the Great, who treated Poles with contempt and called them 'slovenly Polish trash', settled around 300,000 colonists in the eastern provinces of Prussia and aimed at a removal of the Polish nobility.
  • In 1857 the English critic George Henry Townsend published "William Shakespeare Not an Impostor", criticising what he called the slovenly scholarship, false premises, specious parallel passages, and erroneous conclusions of the earliest proponents of alternative authorship candidates.
  • Caesar, an effete tough guy and his slovenly half brother, Otto, have signed up as summer camp counselors. When the mysterious Carrie shows up, the other counselors start disappearing one by one.
  • He is wearing slovenly attire, his hair is tousled, and his face sports a beard shadow.

  • The somewhat slovenly camp follower who accompanied the troops has evolved into a show dance group, but still inspired by the Prussian army.
  • A contemporary described him as ' a tall slovenly man endowed with very good parts; is a firm countryman but never would acknowledge King William'.
  • 1. He3 (...) / (...) - ????, Literally means slovenly; To describe someone who stroll around without any purpose and heedless of everything.
  • He was, however, "a thoughtless young man", so slovenly in his habits, dress, and appearance as to be a jest to his companions; and naturally he "succeeded ill in his profession".
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