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Antonyms for slovenly
ˈslʌv ən lisloven·ly

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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. slovenly

    Antonyms:
    clean, cleanly, dapper, natty, neat, nice, orderly, prim, spruce, tidy, trim

    Synonyms:
    dirty, disorderly, dowdy, negligent, rough, rude, slouchy, soiled, uncared for, unkempt, untidy

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms5.0 / 1 vote

  1. slovenly

    Antonyms:
    trim, neat, careful, orderly, tidy, precise

    Synonyms:
    loose, negligent, disorderly, untidy, unclean, sluttish, slatternly

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. frowsy, frowzy, slovenlyadjective

    negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt

    "filled the door with her frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly appearance"

    Antonyms:
    tidy

    Synonyms:
    frowsy, frowzy

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  1. slovenlyadjective

    Synonyms:
    untidy, disorderly, frowzy, careless

How to use slovenly in a sentence?

  1. James Kelly:

    A ragged colt may prove a good horse. And so may an untoward slovenly boy prove a decent and useful man.

  2. Donald Trump:

    A slovenly man named Joe Crowley got his ass kicked by a young woman who had a lot of energy, she had a lot of energy. I guess he didn't see it. They couldn't find him.

  3. Jane Austen, Letter to Cassandra, 25 November 1798:

    An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

  4. Mary McCarthy:

    The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress -- these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear.

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#1809clean
#5469careful
#5998trim
#7489precise
#10534neat
#15244spruce
#18848tidy
#20349orderly
#33359prim
#36999cleanly
#57569dapper
#64241natty
#148134slovenly

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