Also spelled slattenly

adj Freq #312132

Meanings

  1. 1
    adj

    Appropriate to or characteristic of a slattern.

    Being a light-complexioned woman, she wore light clothes, as most blondes will, and appeared, in preference, in draggled sea-green, or slatternly sky-blue.

Etymology

From slattern + -ly (adjectival suffix).

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