sluttishness

Noun

sluttishness (usually uncountable, plural sluttishnesses)

1. (dated, usually) The state or quality of being sluttish (dirty or untidy; disorderly).
   • For my part I would rather counſell you to deſtroy your Rattes and Miſe with Traps, Banes, or Weeſels: for beſides the ſluttiſhneſſe ⁊ lothſomeneſſe of the Catte (you know what ſhe layes in the Malt heape) ſhe is moſt daungerous and pernicious among children, as I mee ſelf haue had good experience.1577, Conradus Heresbachius [i.e., Konrad Heresbach], compiler, “The Third Booke, of Feeding, Breeding, and Curing of Cattell”, in Barnabe Googe, transl., Fovre Bookes of Husbandry, […]: Conteyning...
   • Well, praiſed be the Gods, for thy foulneſſe; ſluttiſhneſſe may come heereafter.c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
2. (usually, vulgar) The state or quality of being sluttish (like a slut; sexually promiscuous).
   • Before long, the wife begins to reveal her sluttishness and, by the time the play is over, she has arranged a satisfactory financial and sexual deal with her in-laws.1971 May 19, George Oppenheimer, “Pinter’s homecoming”, in Newsday, volume 31, number 218, Garden City, N.Y.; Ronkonkoma, N.Y.: Newsday, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, part II, page 8 A
   • Far more in demand among the Toughs than I, Rammelkamp was an object of gossip and curiosity among the other boys, who occasionally made fun of his name but not his sluttishness. We once compared notes on our sexual initiations, […]2000, Gavin Lambert, “Old Times”, in Mainly About Lindsay Anderson, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 13