How to Use slovenly in a Sentence

slovenly

adjective

• He dressed in a slovenly manner.
• There’s no defense for the slovenly ethics of the past.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• Be a little slovenly in the garden; leave some old broken stems and let a little bare dirt show.
  — Hannah Nordhaus, WSJ, 12 July 2018
• That’s not to say the filmmaking is slovenly, or the acting lacks commitment.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 10 July 2019
• Without the proper collar, the no-tie, unbuttoned shirt look can come off as slovenly rather than stylish.
  — Ray A. Smith, WSJ, 5 July 2017
• The stiff-legged chair and shapeless pillow combine to suggest a slovenly human form.
  — Robert Campbell, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2018
• What could be better than being a slovenly hermit with no pressure to be social?
  — Jill Kargman, Town & Country, 20 Apr. 2021
• In 2005, Pepe became a part of Furie’s comic Boy’s Club, a series about a silly, slovenly group of friends in an early-twenties funk.
  — Emma Grey Ellis, Wired, 27 Jan. 2020
• Her Flora is furious and tender, sharp-edged and easily wounded, a slovenly mess and a whip-smart dynamo.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 24 Jan. 2023
• Christopher Oram has designed a picturesque, if slovenly, storybook cottage of a set.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 4 July 2018
• Rees-Mogg was appointed by the famously slovenly Boris Johnson.
  — Burbank Leader, 22 Aug. 2019
• Harbour had a breakout role last year as the slovenly sheriff in Stranger Things, where his pectorals were not necessarily in danger of ripping through his shirt.
  — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 18 Sep. 2017
• Gilbert and George would never shoulder such a slovenly accessory.
  — The Economist, 15 Nov. 2019
• Suppose an overbearing manager scolds you for your slovenly workspace.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 2 June 2021
• After each has gotten recently divorced, the slovenly, unkempt Oscar Madison (the breaker) and the punctilious neat-freak Felix Unger (the fixer) decide to share an apartment.
  — Gregg Opelka, WSJ, 28 Oct. 2022
• Still wounded by his father’s betrayal, Zach dresses like a homeless person, lives in a slovenly rat trap of an apartment with two dogs, and speaks with good-humored, obscenity-laced bitterness about the past.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
• Think of Silicon Valley, and the notoriously slovenly offices of early Facebook, sticky with beer.
  — Penelope Green, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
• Contrary to outdated stereotypes about video gamers being unhealthy, solitary, and slovenly young people, esports has largely become about bringing a healthy, social, and structured form of team play to the video games industry.
  — Wired, 10 Oct. 2019
• Fat people were typically shown as sexless, slovenly, and utterly devoid of inner lives.
  — Kate Harding, Teen Vogue, 26 Aug. 2019
• Humor is generally the province of trolls; think of the motley assemblage of unfortunates in the slovenly writers’ room on 30 Rock, and that gives you an accurate picture of the setting in which most good jokes and satire are created in America.
  — David Kamp, vanityfair.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• The slovenly man-child paired with the attractive partner is old hat, and the sitcom dynamic between sad-sack husband and nagging wife feels unintentionally regressive.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2021
• From Brooklyn hipsters to the nice people of Dallas, who desperately want to be perceived as urban sophisticates, the new uniform is simply a more comfortable replacement (more slovenly, many would say) for the old uniform.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 10 Jan. 2018
• Our attempt to respectfully bind the national wounds becomes a lesser version of the Republicans’ capitulation to the slovenly ignorance of the Trumpers.
  — Joe Klein, Washington Post, 8 July 2022
• Ultimately, I was no longer held hostage to another person's slovenly, ungrateful consumerism.
  — Emma Johnson, ELLE Decor, 30 Sep. 2015
• People think junkies and alcoholics are slovenly, unmotivated people.
  — Tyler McCarthy, Fox News, 10 July 2018
• That’s not to say the filmmaking is slovenly or the acting lacks commitment, but the observations regarding Montreal’s homeless population and the inequities of our entire global economic capitalist system become, well, fishy.
  — Michael Phillips, Detroit Free Press, 11 July 2019
• Felix Unger was a fastidious commercial photographer; Oscar Madison was a slovenly sportswriter.
  — Connor Letourneau, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Apr. 2023
• Bohan mined the humanity of two unremarkable men - Sam, a janitor cleaning up after slovenly patrons, and Brian, shooting up in his mom's basement - to deliver searing, empathetic portraits of loneliness and addiction.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 28 Dec. 2017

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