If he wanted to be her teacher, he'd have to change his slovenly ways.

She was attractive in a plump, slovenly way, with a mass of jet-black curls, dark eyes and brown skin.

"He's right Joe," says Willie after a superior admonishes them for the slovenly way they look.

She'd failed to understand, she apologized, that Jacobites had higher standards and, thus, she most likely should adopt the slovenly ways of this household.

The dialect is not, as some people suppose, English spoken in a slovenly and ignorant way.

"Well, just this once, although I do deplore this slovenly way of eating in the kitchen."

Her slovenly ways are also indicative of a jittery, nihilistic atmosphere that that the war next door has triggered.

They dressed in a slovenly way.

At the start of the rehearsal he saw one of the violinists playing in a slovenly way, with the neck of his instrument pointing towards the floor.

Move aside boys, with your gutter talk and con games and slovenly ways.