| 单词 | sloven |
| 例句 | He, God, had made a sloven and unforgivable error in judgment: designing an imperfect universe. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Leaving traces of her sloven unhousebroken self all over the county. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The agency’s report on her said she “had a very poor personal appearance, her clothes were sloven and dirty, and her hair was uncombed and matty, and she had a very offensive body odor.” High Point Confidential: Who killed Mary Hopkins in 1951? 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z The names of the teams - "kings, royals, knights" - reveal a lack of imagination and a sloven admiration for colonial and aristocratic titles. Is IPL a 'crony league'? 2012-05-25T11:51:34Z He was such a sloven, as if he had trusted to his genius as a cloak for everything that could disgust you in his person.... Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z Two-thirds of the fire alarm was destroyed, and all the watering-carts, slovens, hose, &c., belonging to the corporation, were burned. The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 2012-03-27T02:00:21.067Z She was exceedingly ugly—red-haired and freckled, with eyes of no colour in particular; she was also bad-tempered and a horrible sloven. A Russian Gentleman 2012-02-08T03:00:18.800Z I could see then how pretty she had been in a large-eyed, short-lipped way, and how charming in her youth had been the inconsequence which as the mistress of a family made her a sloven. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z You haven't got a single 'order' to put on—sloven!” she continued, looking at his black coat with contempt. Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z This dandy sloven, whose shrill voice proclaimed her little vulgar soul--so different from that other Nelly, whose soft, musical tones had not been among the least of her charms. Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z But when they got a dray or a sloven, where could they go? The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 2012-03-27T02:00:21.067Z To me the painted slovens were physically loathsome, so I shunned them. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z Madam, I'll give you one; he wears his clothes like a great sloven, and that's a sure sign of wit; he neglects his outward parts; besides, he speaks French, sings, dances, plays upon the lute. Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love 2011-10-08T02:00:22.420Z How sloven like the school-boy looks, Who daubs his books at play; Give him a new one? A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z Ten to one he would have proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable animal wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation. Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z There was no apparent evidence of poverty in the apartment—clean, new, well furnished; but all things in the most horrible litter—all speaking of the huge literary sloven. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z The lady we have been speaking of, ever appears a sloven, though she is sometimes a disgusting figure, and, at others, a very taudry flirt. Mary Wollstonecraft's Original Stories 2011-06-26T02:00:10.173Z So down the swift decline You went through sloven spirit, craven heart And cynic indolence. Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z Besides, the appearance of a well-dressed man commands a certain degree of respect which would never be shown to a sloven. Martine's Hand-book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness 2011-05-08T02:00:05.770Z He believed in discipline and hard work, and calling to mind the strict habits of his school days, he made the sloven and surly bachelors walk-a-chalk. The Pocahontas-John Smith Story 2011-04-15T02:00:20.537Z The sloven in speech is quite as offensive as a sloven in manner and dress. The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms 2011-04-05T02:00:10.347Z You're grown to be a sloven lately . . deliberately letting yourself be unhappy. edward. Is happiness under one's control? alice. My friend, you shouldn't neglect your happiness any more than you neglect to wash your face. Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste 2011-03-22T02:00:23.063Z There is now no medium between the fine lady with mittens and flowers who dresses your hair, and the dirty sloven of a lodging-house. The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society 2011-02-01T03:00:13.500Z An untidy person at five-and-twenty, degenerates, very frequently, into a sloven and a boor at fifty. Martine's Hand-book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness 2011-05-08T02:00:05.770Z I was just finishing breakfast; I hadn't done my hair; if you must know, I was rather a sloven at that time. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z A good barn stands for a farm run without sloven make-shift—and that one cost me well-nigh as much money as my dwelling house. The Law of Hemlock Mountain A man who is deprived of the possibility of revenge must lose his self-respect as he has, and degenerate into a sloven. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers Surrounded by a hinterland where sloven illiteracy fostered lawlessness, that fire burned in houses that stood up as monuments both of practical utility and surprising beauty. The Tempering There seems to be no doubt that for a while she did her poor utmost to keep house—but the sloven in her was too deeply rooted not to flower. The Book of Susan A Novel She dressed herself neatly, for she was no sloven; slippers she never wore, whereas Lenz would often go from one Sunday to the other, without once putting on his boots. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. III. The one is a regular sloven compared with the other. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 She carried a sloven list that brought her port chains under, and she shouldered at her anchor like a drunken man at a post. Where the Pavement Ends All these years, she reflected with a smile of self-derision, she had harboured the thought of this mountain girl, caricatured by imagination into a bare-foot sloven, before whose vulgar charms Boone's loyalty had discreditably wavered. The Tempering It is a slave and a sloven you have made of your wife, and it is driving the boy to the police, you are doing. A Boy Knight He tried to plead how quickly he Could heat and clean her oven, But she turned from him in disgust, And called him “dirty sloven.” Doctor Bolus and His Patients Over a scurf of rocks the tide Wanders inward far and wide, Lifting the sea-weed's sloven hair, Filling the pools and foaming there, Sighing, sighing everywhere. Sea Poems But he was a hopeless drunkard, an offensive sloven, rude and aggressive in society—in short a survival of the Grub Street pattern of the century of his birth. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) The Consuls had shown themselves no slovens and no sentimentalists. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) He climaxed, after an interminable amount of talking, with a boast that awakened the hearty approbation of his sloven fellows. The Plow-Woman I should be sorry you were an egregious fop; but I protest that, of the two, I would rather have you a fop than a sloven. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing An approach to a more charitable view of the clergy is discoverable in the curate Mr. Larynx, who, if not extremely ghostly, is neither a sot nor a sloven. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Cruel, corrupt, lazy, and sloven of soul, he found there what he knew best because it was his own. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards It had been an endless pile of luggage, and we apologized for it, and continued to say, "There's another piece, or two, or more, outside on the sloven...." Westward with the Prince of Wales In the grape regions of New York, many grape-growers do not spray at all, but these are usually slovens or procrastinators whose profits are small and uncertain. Manual of American Grape-Growing The sloven becomes the bungler, and the bungler is on the high road to failure. Rural Life and the Rural School A fashion loose forsake,� A shoe of sloven make, That any foot may take. Enamels and Cameos and other Poems How this lack of symmetry should be explained, whether due to sloven work or the result of the effort to adapt the church to the lines of the earlier church of SS. Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture In the big triangular space about it gather the carters with their "slovens," curious square carts, hung so low that their floor boards are but a few inches from the ground. Westward with the Prince of Wales That you may grow gouty and old, That the fair smiling face of your bonnie young bride May grow pale and haggard, and wrinkled, beside, Or she prove a sloven and scold? What a Young Woman Ought to Know The obvious disadvantage is the encouragement it offers to the sloven. Home Life in Germany Folks have called the first King James Most uncomplimentary names; To wit ‘a sloven’ and ‘a glutton’; Perhaps his weakness was Scotch Mutton. A Humorous History of England He wondered what the forces might be which had brought such a daughter to this sloven, this virago. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West She was a good-natured, well-intentioned old sloven, but a most renowned tattler, and the girl feared her more than she feared any other woman in the valley. The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range Why, by Heaven, even now her petticoat was gaping behind, worse than the sloven's at the Red Lion. The House with the Green Shutters English girls are not all slovens, and nowadays decently bred Germans behave like other people at table. Home Life in Germany No, he thought, he did not seriously dislike this fetid sloven beneath him. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais How could a sloven slave express The frank, the manly tenderness That wraps you round from common thought, And does not ask that you should know The love that consecrates you so. Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890 The Spaniards, who are notorious slovens at keeping things shipshape, had allowed her to run down to bare rot after her Britisher-Canadian crew had left her. All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways I've got a thousand-legged worm at the head of a pismire flush, and it serves us right, for a lot of slovens. Woodcraft But these same girls who look such slovens usually have stores of tidy well-made body linen and knitted stockings. Home Life in Germany Too little attention to dress and surroundings is slovenliness.—The sloven is known by his dirty hands and face, his disheveled hair, and tattered garments. Practical Ethics She was not, however, a philosophical sloven, with romantic ideas of benevolence, as he intimates. Mary Wollstonecraft It is as much a sign of being no gentleman to over-dress as to dress like a sloven, but, as in every other case, the secret is to find the golden mean. Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life As to his being a sloven in dress, is that what they say about him? The Rose of Old St. Louis Once in seven years there came a sloven's year, according to the old folk, when the sloven had a splendid crop of wheat and hardly knew where to put it. Round About a Great Estate The sloven and the dude are both slaves; but in different ways.—Slovenliness is slavery to the hideous and repulsive. Practical Ethics Not that a dandy is always a gentleman; but an habitual sloven cannot be. Etiquette He was a sloven, unclean in all his ways. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula A sloven will be always viewed With pity by the wise and good; While ev'n the vicious and the base Behold with scorn a dirty face. Slovenly Betsy Women were made to give our eyes delight; A female sloven is an odious sight. The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 Surely no Cambridge man would willingly be a sloven in speech, oral or written? On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 I could better eat with one who did not respect the truth or the laws, than with a sloven and unpresentable person. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson X. A woman who was a sloven suddenly develops extreme nicety in her attire. The Physiology of Marriage, Complete There was no early tea for Mistress Tusser's maids, let me tell you: Some slovens from sleeping no sooner get up But hand is in aumbry and nose is in cup. In a Green Shade A Country Commentary When in public, the professor was still a sloven; but his heavy form and majestic head and countenance—though he was not a tall man—at once commanded respect. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy At Groningen Roman Catholic priests become noticeable—so different in their stylish coats, square hats and canes, from the blue-chinned kindly slovens that one meets in the Latin countries. A Wanderer in Holland From thence I saunter’d to the club— Fortune to me’s a sloven—or, I surely must have won one rub, But—mind! don’t tell the Governor! Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841 I do not want a sloven, but I want a girl who is a real person and not a mere poupée modèle to show off dresses. Stray Thoughts for Girls This little boy's mother was, poor woman, very much of a sloven, but he had a string of little sisters who were as nice as could be. Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 His gait was shuffling and awkward, and all his carriage was that of a man who was a sloven in everything; he was slovenly in his dress, slovenly in his behaviour, slovenly in mind. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 493, June 11, 1831 This Lucas was an extraordinary compound of shrewdness and recklessness, one separating from the other like oil and vinegar in a sloven's salad. Helmet of Navarre You pack of rascally slovens! say, couldn't you have gone outdoors to do your dirty work? The Downfall Thus to a dean some curate sloven Subscribes, "Dear sir, your brother loving." The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 It is a maxim with me, which I have lived to see verified, that he who is negligent at twenty years of age, will be a sloven at forty, and intolerable at fifty. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Antonym: sloven. danger, n. jeopardy, hazard, peril, insecurity, risk, exposure, imminence, impediment. Putnam's Word Book But surely, Madam, there is a middle way to be observed, in these, as in most other cases; for a man need not be a sloven, any more than a fop. Pamela, Volume II By six o'clock or six-thirty she had slipped back into the sloven. The Pretty Lady He was Irish all over—the strangest mixture of the aristocrat and the sloven. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections They bade her enter their doors and sit in their sloven homes amid the broken things the Italians had left behind them. The Precipice The surest sign of a sloven and a failure, of a moral, mental, and physical no-good is down-at-the-heel. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise Was the lady a woman of taste?" we condemn every man who dresses well, and is not a sloven, as a fop or a coxcomb?" Pamela, Volume II His easy unswept hearth he lends From Labrador to Guadeloupe; Till, elbowed out by sloven friends, He camps, at sufferance, on the stoop. Verses 1889-1896 Having been a coxcomb in his youth, Fox was now degenerating into the sloven. Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire But she already wore a dragged expression; and work, far beyond her powers to accomplish, was making a sloven of her. The Precipice The maid—a good-natured sloven who had become devoted to Susan because she gave her liberal fees and made her no extra work—was standing there, in an attitude of suppressed excitement. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise As to his dress in general, he cannot indeed be called a sloven, but sometimes he is too gaudy, at other times too plain, to be uniformly elegant. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 2 Silent and reserved, except in the society of his friends, a sloven in his person, he had probably taken to drink as a cure for sleeplessness. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 Instead of the sloven, he found a housewife who made up in zeal for lack of experience. The Mountebank He used to be quite a sloven in his dress; you know how very slovenly most American gentlemen are in their dress, at any rate. Indian Summer He was lazy and sloven of mornings, and since he had no office to go to he grew more neglectful of his appearance than ever. We Can't Have Everything To see a silly contemptible sloven in apparel, ragged in his coat, polite in speech, of a divine spirit, wise? another neat in clothes, spruce, full of courtesy, empty of grace, wit, talk nonsense? The Anatomy of Melancholy She was one of those women who remain trig and chic though they be slovens by instinct. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front Though one would take him to be a sloven, yet he loves clean linen extremely, and for that reason takes an order that fine Holland sheets be not made worms'-meat. Character Writings of the 17th Century Indeed, forsooth, mistress, he is such a sloven, That nothing will sit handsome about him; He had a pound of soap to scour his face, And yet his brow looks like the chimney-stock. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 Was she not idle, sulky, scornful, and a sloven? Boys and girls from Thackeray In France, a knave is dressed like a fop; and in the northern countries, like a sloven. History of Tom Jones, a Foundling You can imagine it,— A sadly sloven altar to his Muse, Littered with papers, cups, and greasy plates Of untouched food. Watchers of the Sky It is a reproach to any man to be but a bungler at his profession, to be but a sloven in his profession. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 He'll be a sloven still; maid, take this apron, And bring me one of linen: quickly, maid. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 From his form and face he might have been considered one of the handsomest of men, if, at the same time, he had not had something of the sloven in his whole appearance. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life Why, sir, I hear that Goldsmith is a very great sloven, and justifies his disregard for cleanliness and decency by quoting my example. English Literature for Boys and Girls "I tell you, I don't know the man; but if he said that, he's a dirty sloven, sure enough!" Under Fire: the story of a squad For simple souls thinking in simple processes, salvation perhaps comes easily, but there is none for the intellectual coward, for the mental sloven and sluggard, for the stupid and obdurate mind. First and Last Things At school, boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the constitution before it is formed; hardening the heart as it weakens the understanding. Vindication of the Rights of Woman The decked-out dandies before the world are frequently the greatest slovens in domestic privacy. East Lynne He favoured no one—not even when the company sloven pulled the company cricket-match out of the fire with an unexpected forty-three at the last moment. The Day's Work - Volume 1 Being frequently under the necessity of wearing shabby coats and dirty shirts, he became a confirmed sloven. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3 Instead of the careless, indolent sloven we knew at Oxford, I found him a busy talkative politician; a petit-maitre in his dress, and a ceremonious courtier in his manners. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker The brightest colors in my box looked dowdy and dim, and I myself felt like an unwashed, unbrushed, unpresentable sloven. After Dark |
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