| 单词 | slatternly |
| 释义 | slat·tern·ly I. 1. < tatterdemalion, slatternly, slipshod women — E.C.Clayton > < streets terribly shabby and slatternly and badly paved — Arnold Bennett > also < I am … slatternly; I seldom put, and never keep things in order; I am careless — Charlotte Brontë > 2. Synonyms: < a small, slatternly looking craft, her hull and spars a dingy black, rigging all slack and bleached nearly white, and every thing denoting an ill state of affairs aboard — Herman Melville > < lived with them, in the slatternly apartment among the unwashed dishes in the sink and on the table, the odor of stale tobacco smoke, the dirty shirts and underwear piled in corners — R.P.Warren > dowdy may apply to a complete lack of taste typically marked by a blend of the untidy, unfit, or either drab or tawdry < her shoes were bought a long time ago and have no relation to the dress, and the belt of her dress has become untied and is hanging down. She looks clean and dowdy — Lillian Hellman > < so dreadfully dowdy that she reminded one of a badly bound hymnbook — Oscar Wilde > frowsy suggests a lazy lack of neatness, order, and cleanliness < a dumpy, frowsy woman, clad in old dress and apron — A.J.Coutts > < if a fully fed, presentably clothed, decently housed, fairly literate and cultivated and gently mannered family is not better than a half-starved, ragged, frowsy, overcrowded one, there is no meaning in words — G.B.Shaw > blowsy suggests rude, loud, florid coarseness and lack of refinement < a big blowsy Jezebel from the docks — Bruce Marshall > < the fat and blowsy wife bowed in an exaggerated fashion, never stopping the while to fan her red face vigorously — Louis Bromfield > II. |
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