slovenlily
slovenlily adverb: in a slovenly manner.
Adverb
slovenlily (comparative more slovenlily, superlative most slovenlily)
- In a slovenly manner.
- It was equally notorious (continues the Colonel) that some of them, when too idle to hoe and properly prepare their ground for seed, have carelessly thrown the grain over the old stubble, chipped it in, as they termed it, going lightly over the ground with a hoe, and barely covering the seed: yet...1804, A Concise History of the English Colony in New South Wales, from the Landing of Governor Phillip in January 1788, to May 1803; Describing Also the Dispositions, Habits, & Savage Customs of the...
- This new edition of the Utopia, may be spoken of with confidence as possessing those necessary essentials which are too often omitted from negligence, or slovenlily got rid of by probability and surmise.1815, Egerton Brydges, Censura Literaria. Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books, with Original Disquisitions, Articles of Biography, and Other Literary Antiquities., 2nd...
- Synonyms:
- slovenly
Examples of slovenlily in a sentence
- They are either rendered ostentatiously prominent or slovenlily immaterial, as the painter may happen or not to possess skill in their delineation; […]1831, “Dogmas on Art.—No. VII. On the Education of an Artist.—(Continued.)”, in Library of the Fine Arts; or Repertory of Painting...
- It is left, and must be left to servants, and they can be but under a very indifferent control, and, therefore, very slovenlily perform their duties.1846 March 28, Herapath’s Railway and Commercial Journal, volume VIII, number 355, London, page 434:
- The nest is loosely and rather slovenlily constructed of coarse dry grasses and stalks externally, lined sometimes with fine grass,—sometimes with fine roots.1848 July, Thomas Hutton, “Notes on the Nidification of Indian Birds”, in The Secretaries, editors, Journal of the Asiatic Society of...
- […] in an anteroom were slovenlily scattered the head, arms, and legs, and all the disjecta membra, of another Nubian.1850, Charles Mac Farlane, Turkey and Its Destiny: The Result of Journeys Made in 1847 and 1848 to Examine into the State of That Country...
Synonyms of slovenlily
Forms of slovenlily
| comparative | more slovenlily |
|---|---|
| superlative | most slovenlily |
Origin of slovenlily
From slovenly + -ly.
Questions about slovenlily
- What does slovenlily mean?
- Slovenlily means in a slovenly manner.
- How do you use slovenlily in a sentence?
- They are either rendered ostentatiously prominent or slovenlily immaterial, as the painter may happen or not to possess skill in their delineation; […]
- What part of speech is slovenlily?
- Slovenlily is an adverb.
Words near slovenlily in the dictionary
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