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slatternly

slatternly adjective: appropriate to or characteristic of a slattern.

Adjective

slatternly (comparative more slatternly, superlative most slatternly)

  1. 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.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 9, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC
    • The dismal quarter of Soho seen under these changing glimpses, with its muddy ways, and slatternly passengers, and its lamps, which had never been extinguished or had been kindled afresh to combat this mournful rëinvasion of darkness, seemed, in the lawyer's eyes, like a district of some city in a...1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Carew Murder Case”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 40

Adverb

slatternly (comparative more slatternly, superlative most slatternly)

  1. In the manner of a slattern.

slatternly meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

slatternly in Tamil

ஒழுங்கு அற்ற

slatternly in Malayalam

slovenly, untidy, messy
വെടിപ്പും വൃത്തിയുമില്ലാത്ത, വൃത്തികേടായി വസ്ത്രംധരിച്ചു നടക്കുന്ന, പ്രാകൃതവേഷം ധരിച്ച, വൃത്തിയില്ലാത്ത, വെടിപ്പില്ലാത്ത, അടുക്കും ചിട്ടയുമില്ലാത്ത

Forms of slatternly

Adjective
comparativemore slatternly
superlativemost slatternly
Adverb
comparativemore slatternly
superlativemost slatternly

Origin of slatternly

From slattern + -ly (adjectival suffix).

From slattern + -ly (adverbial suffix).

Words formed from slatternly

Questions about slatternly

What does slatternly mean?
Slatternly means appropriate to or characteristic of a slattern.
What is slatternly in Tamil?
Slatternly in Tamil is ஒழுங்கு அற்ற. See Slatternly meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is slatternly?
Slatternly can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near slatternly in the dictionary

  1. slattern away
  2. slatterned away
  3. slatterning away
  4. slatternish
  5. slatternliness
  6. slatternly
  7. slatternness
  8. slatterns
  9. slatterns away
  10. slatters
  11. slattery

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: slatternly (page history and authors); slatternly (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); slatternly (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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