| 单词 | slovenliness |
| 例句 | What was taken by outsiders to be slackness, slovenliness or even generosity was in fact a full recognition of the legitimacy of forces other than good ones. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Who knows how many quarrels, false accusations, unnecessary dismissals, how many promising careers cut short can be attributed to a butler's slovenliness at the stage of drawing up the staff plan? The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The word had connotations of dirt and slovenliness and dishonor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In Mr. Mahalchick’s best work an almost devotional sense of precision shines through a thin veneer of slovenliness. Art In Review: MICHAEL MAHALCHICK: ?It? 2012-04-12T19:53:50Z Language, he wrote, “becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.” Review | Paulo Coelho’s ‘The Archer’ aims for profundity but misses 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z Your instinct, that slovenliness will be perceived as disrespect, is reasonable. Perspective | Miss Manners: Dirty T-shirt okay for online wedding? 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z “If you do not rise to the head not only of your profession, but of your country, it will be owing to your own laziness, slovenliness and obstinacy.” How the Bush political dynasty measures up to the Adams clan 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z There are even some occasions when I revel in my slovenliness. Confessions of a messy eater 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z I’m sure the bags categorize me alongside those people who keep too many animals — projecting a slide toward slovenliness, an almost-pathological personal disarray. The Mirror: My Personal Baggage 2011-01-28T20:15:31Z This also speaks to the hollowness that all ideological language contains, to paraphrase Orwell, in its swindles and perversions, its slovenliness and vagueness. Right-wing story hour, part 2: Chaya Raichik and the Libs of TikTok saga 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Our language “becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.” We could use George Orwell’s help today with the war on ‘woke’ 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Our language "becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish," George Orwell wrote, "but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts." The dangerous myth of the "moderate Republican" keeps pushing the media rightward 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts. The meaning of words: Orwell, Didion, Trump and the death of language 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Herewith three examples of slovenliness, even meretriciousness, regarding facts: Opinion | The ‘1619 Project’ is filled with slovenliness and ideological ax-grinding 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z In “Politics and the English Language,” Orwell wrote that “the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.” Paging Big Brother: In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Because when you zoom out, you can appreciate that language change is not just a question of slovenliness: it happens at every level, from the superficial to the structural. Why it’s time to stop worrying about the decline of the English language 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Osipov’s characters are disgusted by the slovenliness and stupidity of those around them, and then disgusted by their own disgust. A Village Doctor’s Literary Calling 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Her other great vocation — her campaign against imprecision and intellectual slovenliness, obsequiousness and mediocrity in all forms — continues unabated. At 82, Glenda Jackson Commands the Most Powerful Role in Theater 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z Michael, played by Ben Whishaw, fails to locate a lost share certificate due to slovenliness. Can we trust money advice from Mary Poppins? 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z There was something delicious in the slutty slovenliness of my unkempt inbox; it was my anarchic rebellion against the tyranny of digital efficiency. Unanswered emails were the bane of my life - until I spent a month in search of inbox nirvana 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z He radiates something akin to concern for his employees even as he rages at their slovenliness. ‘L’Accident’ Review: Road to Ruin 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z This was a response to the institutional slovenliness that exasperated an amiable president three decades ago. Opinion | Congress continues to degrade itself 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Those hives also displayed a certain slovenliness, with adults less likely to remove pupae infected with disease. Neonicotinoids can harm some bees 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z As it is, their slovenliness at the back at crucial times has probably convinced Chelsea that buying Van Dijk this summer would be a good investment. Chelsea v Southampton: Premier League – as it happened 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z There’s a cliche that women let themselves go as soon as they have a ring on their finger, but my descent into slovenliness long predates that happy occurrence. The beauty backlash is overwhelming – but I haven’t washed my hair in days | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z It was a tendency toward slovenliness, after all, that famously led him to stumble upon the antibiotic properties of penicillin on this day, Sept. 28, in 1928. How Being a Slob Helped Alexander Fleming Discover Penicillin 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z “I’m the kind of person who’ll tell a customer, ‘Your slovenliness and lack of care for your instrument just cost you two grand,’ ” Mr. McAlexander said. Custom Horns and Feeders: The Tuba Fixer 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Tammy loses her fast-food job because of lateness, slovenliness and rudeness. Family Filmgoer reviews ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ and ‘Earth to Echo’ And we all know what sofa-sitting is code for: slovenliness and laziness. Doctors can be fat-shamers too 2014-03-24T00:00:00Z So where do you draw the line between pedantry and slovenliness? The people who hate other people's bad grammar 2013-05-13T08:58:14Z An obese person, for example, might focus on dressing nicely to combat stereotypes of slovenliness. Discriminated Groups Strategize to Avoid Prejudice 2013-04-19T20:15:00.747Z Dirt and slovenliness are neither of them picturesque, yet it would seem that this singular clique held that to cultivate both was the first duty of man. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z It is a moot point how far the extremely loose and ungirt character of this style, which sometimes, and indeed often, reaches sheer slovenliness and solecism, was intentional. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2012-03-28T02:00:26.907Z Neither of his other books had been written so rapidly, and he feared that he might incur the charge of over-fluency or even slovenliness. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z The background is an office which by its military order and punctuality rebukes the habitual slovenliness of Russia. Dictatorship vs. Democracy (Terrorism and Communism) 2012-02-27T03:00:14.477Z She drifted in from the Quartier, but the slovenliness and shabby finery of her dress made it hard to believe she was French. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z I repeatedly heard complaints made of the slovenliness of the attendants, in consequence of which it frequently happened 364that days elapsed ere goods, paid for, were delivered out of bond. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z Too much has been made of his unconventionality, his slovenliness and slackness, his love of low or common company. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z While such universal slovenliness prevailed as Erasmus has described, it is not likely that much attention was generally paid to the cultivation of the mind. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z Sergeant Major King, the daughter of a sharecropper near Fort Bragg, N.C., was described in the interview as having a clipped speaking style, an acute command of regulations and a visible disgust with slovenliness. First Woman to Lead Army Drill Sergeant School Is Suspended 2011-12-15T02:18:40Z There was another reason for my not employing her to which I have not so far referred, the reason really of her slovenliness and bad temper and gradual deterioration. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z There is a slovenliness in this use of a big brush. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z There is for the most part a great overgrowth and overrunning of the least desirable elements, a general air of slovenliness and unthrift. A Trip to Cuba 2011-12-05T03:00:49.610Z An astonishing accumulation of cigarette-ends and empty bottles suggested slovenliness in the occupant. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z The scene is dreary enough, in spite of the picturesque bare-legged turnspit by the roaring wood-fire, the furniture is scanty, there are draughts, and the litter lying about spells slovenliness and discomfort. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z The real enemy we have to fight against, whatever we teach, is carelessness, inaccuracy, forgetfulness, and slovenliness. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z It certainly was not until some years after his return to America that any slovenliness could be observed about Paine, and the contrary was often remarked in former times.* The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z After tea, the party set out for Monsieur Franchimeau's, and were ushered into the front parlour, which was fitted up in a manner that exhibited a strange m�lange of slovenliness and pretension. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z We have already told the reader that cleanliness was Mrs. Billing's peculiar and predominant idiosyncrasy, and we must reconcile this statement to our portraiture of unbecoming slovenliness. Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter 2011-09-30T02:00:17.137Z She had noted before their slovenliness, but now, as they mingled with the men of Cantalacan, this appeared emphasised. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z She was a person of extraordinary slovenliness and good-humour, indefatigably kind, generous, and light-hearted, who had been so used to carrying burdens herself that she cheerfully shouldered other people's burdens as a kind of right. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Paine had left his farm at New Rochelle, at which place the travellers heard stories of his slovenliness, also that he was penurious, though nothing was said of intemperance. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z Such a condition of slovenliness and dirt it would be hard to equal. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z Making "confusion worse confounded;" leaving things worse than they were before; adding to the discomfort of their husbands, their children, and themselves; whom they keep in a perpetual state of slovenliness and untidiness. Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter 2011-09-30T02:00:17.137Z It is also an enormous character flaw which speaks loudly of the one thus afflicted. . . more so, perhaps, than the person realizes; slovenliness wins no friends. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z The whole room has an appearance of hopeless untidiness and slovenliness. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z He didn’t ask the club to consider the final draft of the play, he said, “out of a combination of theatrical slovenliness on my part and a desire to work with another theater.” ArtsBeat: Shanley's Trilogy Finale: The Drama Behind the Drama 2011-07-21T20:45:57Z The Bishop of Lincoln finds it necessary to warn the Countess of Lincoln not to permit slovenliness among her retainers. Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women 2011-07-20T02:00:13.547Z We said necessary, to excuse the lady of the house for the chaotic arrangements of her household, seeing that one couldn't enter the dwelling without being painfully aware that slovenliness and disorder reigned supreme. Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter 2011-09-30T02:00:17.137Z He hated disorder as Sir Artegal hated injustice; and if there was anything against which he took up his parable with burning indignation, it was slovenliness, and half-done work, and “shoddiness” of all kinds. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z Mere hastiness or slovenliness of work is not identical with the effect of inability to achieve mechanical neatness. Antonio Stradivari 2011-06-28T02:00:11.050Z Whatever else might be said, a reputation for slovenliness and untruthfulness would be scarcely likely to help me in my career. The Kidnapped President 2011-06-23T02:00:29.120Z It promotes clearness of thought, banishing that vague slovenliness of ideas which is analogous to the ragged edges of a frayed garment. A Word to Women 2011-06-08T02:00:18.457Z An exception to the general slovenliness of this quarter is to be seen in the old Merchants' Exchange Hall on Main Street. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z She was slipping back into shiftlessness, into minute untidiness—into actual slovenliness. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z They should be made to feel that proficiency in music, French, German, or painting, or any other accomplishment, so-called, will not compensate for slovenliness of diction. The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms 2011-04-05T02:00:10.347Z On the other hand, her dirt and slovenliness were exactly what I had been led to expect it would be from my first inspection of the cabin. The Kidnapped President 2011-06-23T02:00:29.120Z At the end of that bout of reading he attained a vivid realization of the garrulous badness that rules in this field of work, and the prevailing slovenliness and negligence in regard to it. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z He did not want to go home to fretfulness, fault-finding, slovenliness, and perpetual criticism. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z No matter how fine the printing and color work is, if the margins are uneven and the folds mismatched, then the resulting air of slovenliness discredits the entire work. Paper-Cutting Machines A Primer of Information about Paper and Card Trimmers, Hand-Lever Cutters, Power Cutters and Other Automatic Machines for Cutting Paper (Typographic Technical Series Part 1, No. 10) 2010-12-30T03:00:20.623Z She may excuse, or overlook, carelessness or even slovenliness in his personal appearance, if she is very fond of him, but she would like him much more if he were neat and tidy and tasteful. The Man Who Pleases and the Woman Who Charms 2011-04-05T02:00:10.347Z The devil of slovenliness certainly would find difficulty in entering a Welsh cottage if the tidiness of its doorstep is borne out in the interior. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z At no point, however, could they be considered dominant and their slovenliness at times placed their victory in jeopardy. Chelsea 2-0 Wolves 2010-10-23T16:05:00Z Though I was a means of saving their lives, the survivors never thanked me for the exposure I made of their slovenliness. Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician For all the slovenliness of her clothes she had a trick of putting them on which an Englishwoman never has as a birthright, and rarely achieves. Beggars on Horseback It will be well, however, to avoid over-excitement and violence in execution, which give an air of slovenliness to that which ought to be simply a revery. A Treatise on Etching All the dirt and slovenliness of a cottier habitant—for the house was occupied by what is misnamed "a caretaker"—were seen on every hand. Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) The child of the rag-picker soon began to like in-door industry better than the vagrant business of the streets, and to lose something of her boldness and correct her slovenliness. The Dangerous Classes of New York And Twenty Years' Work Among Them Many of our American girls speak with indescribable harshness, slovenliness and shrillness. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists A slovenly articulation, for example, may be the index of a moral slovenliness, and may react upon the latter. The Voice and Spiritual Education A few days, and they lost all the slovenliness of recruits and held themselves erect. A Gallant Grenadier A Tale of the Crimean War It is the root, also, of slovenliness, filth, misery, and slavery; its cultivation has increased in England with the increase of the paupers: both, I thank God, are upon the decline. Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend The commanding officers would ordinarily have become raging martinets at such lax discipline and slovenliness, but the taint and contempt of treasonous gain was upon them also. For Every Man A Reason It must have no slovenliness of diction, no weak or indeterminate terminations, no vagueness of conception, and no obscurity. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History It was a mixture of luxury, barbarism, slovenliness and dirt. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres The slovenliness of their style, which is often pompous, but seldom pure, makes them appear to have been written hastily. Studies in Contemporary Biography At two lunch—and at six the dinner-gong will bring the whole flock together, all dressed—mind that—all dressed, for slovenliness is an abomination. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) She wore a tawdry hat that only helped to betray her general slovenliness. John March, Southerner He was a writer of English, but his extremity was such that only the briefest slovenliness would serve. Old Crow When he gets out of his aphorismic metre into a sentence of five or six lines long, nothing can exceed the slovenliness of the English.” dislike for Dr. Johnson. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature I explained to her what I wanted to do, apologizing for my slovenliness. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself But that it should invariably exclude mere trivialities, faults of taste, slovenlinesses of expression, etc., is at least the opinion of the present writer. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing It is in rhythm what the perfect prose letter should be and is—flowing and unpremeditated without slovenliness—having the characteristics of the best conversation, as differentiated from mere argument or harangue. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects Give detail when it is needed to express character or to avoid slovenliness. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors In this method it is not always easy to distinguish economy from skill, or slovenliness from science. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) It is due, not to slovenliness, but to the strange places and circumstances under which it has been written. The Hound of Heaven No such charge could possibly be brought against his letters, which hit the happy mean between slovenliness and artificial elaboration in a fashion that could hardly be bettered. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing This sometimes leads the excessively corpulent person to relax into laziness and slovenliness. How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types The usual horrors of a suburban parlour were augmented by a general slovenliness, and an obvious disregard for any sort of order. Berenice There was nothing about him to suggest the former estate of gentleman save his hands, which, while thin and tremulous, were clean and well-kept, in singular contrast to the slovenliness of his attire. The Lieutenant-Governor A Novel The very clatter pleased me, the crowds, the camp-like slovenliness, a disorder so entirely different from the established and accepted untidiness of China or India. The Passionate Friends All morning and all afternoon are not yet sanctioned by good usage and give a decided impression of slovenliness. Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses His thin skin and sensitive nerves make him more conscious of roughness and slovenliness than others. How to Analyze People on Sight Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types The slovenliness of these people is most exasperating. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule There was no sign of limp slovenliness about them. The Greater Power Unlike most men who are indifferent to the outside world he was clean, because he found that slovenliness impaired his efficiency, and took the edge off his energy. Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists For what he called such "inexcusable slovenliness," the Prior had imposed a penance of bread and water and extra toil. G-r-r-r...! It is strange that he attributes slovenliness of manner to Rembrandt, "from Avarice." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 I alternated between passive submission to island laziness, shiftlessness, slovenliness, dirt, and active assertion of Ohio vim. An Ohio Woman in the Philippines Giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China In another place we are presented, with Mr. Merry, the English Minister, to Jefferson, whom we find in an unofficial costume of studied slovenliness, intended as a snub to haughty Albion. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Yet there was considerable esprit de corps amongst the gunners, who maintained their material, as well as their discipline, in surprisingly good order considering the lack of officers, and the general slovenliness of their surroundings. History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government We had evidently caught the household stripped of “lugs,” and sunk in the down-at-the-heel slovenliness which it called “comfort.” Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 The outlook of the house was on to some untidy waste land covered with long grass—rather an unusual sign of slovenliness in a country of such universal neatness. From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India But well-executed work in one department by no means justifies slovenliness in another. Little Folks (October 1884) A Magazine for the Young Adam Burn winced a little at the ragged edge this made on the paper, for he was a careful person and hated slovenliness. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life He again resumed a quiet method of life, and owing to the slovenliness of his dress narrowly escaped being shipped to the West Indies by a press-gang. State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) His chronicle plays are very weak, showing no grasp of heroic character, and a most lamentable slovenliness of rhythm. A History of Elizabethan Literature Though authoritative in his class without any effort, he was indulgent to everything but conceit, slovenliness of mind and body, irreverence, and above all handling the Word of God deceitfully. Spare Hours The more a madman raves and roars, the better; rags, slovenliness, and matted hair, and beard too, are the usual associates of awkwardness and vulgarity. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3 A rough and unpolished behavior, as well as slovenliness of person, will certainly be the consequence of an almost constant exclusion from it. Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World They are rapid, definite, and without a trace of either slovenliness or fatigue. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 6: Harriet Martineau Got to show my gratitude to you for standing my general slovenliness.... The Job An American Novel Yet these people did not appear to be in want; they were healthy, cheerful, and contented; and their filthy manner of living was the result of sheer indolence and slovenliness. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Not only so, but the mere weight of rigging and sails, and the stretching resultant on such strain, caused recurring derangements, which, permitted, became slovenliness. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life Hence there is no little novelty in his style, and not seldom some inconsistencies—a mixture of care and delicacy, with great apparent slovenliness. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 His ideal of a master is one who needs a great deal of waiting on in trivial, unlaborious ways, who tolerates all shortcomings and slovenliness, and bestows liberal gratuities. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy I added slovenliness to my already long list of her demerits. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 Indistinct enunciation comes from a natural slovenliness of mind, from nervousness, haste or over-excitement. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide The hideous forms we find in his Chinese vase painteress ... an ostentatious slovenliness of execution ... objects as much out of perspective as the great blue vase in the foreground, &c. ... &c.... The Gentle Art of Making Enemies We say apparent, for we are persuaded Sir Joshua never worked without real care and forethought; and that his apparent slovenliness was a purpose, and a long studied acquirement. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Let every movement be made with care, and avoid slovenliness, from the outset. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 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 Of course, the maids made beds, swept and dusted dormitories, and all that; but each girl was supposed to attend to her own personal belongings; slovenliness was frowned upon throughout the school. A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall Why there should be, universally, a connection between slovenliness, ignorance, and vice, is a question I have no room in this work to discuss. The Young Man's Guide Katherine was not one of those women who appear to imagine that slovenliness is the proper exponent of sorrow. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Nor did the inhabitants exhibit much less simplicity and moderation; or, to speak more properly, slovenliness and penury in their dress than in their furniture.... South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 On the contrary, it is cleanly in its nature; and its slovenliness is brought upon it by the manner in which it is styed up, in its own filth. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys It is inconsiderate, on the other hand, when he conducts them with any, even the least, real slovenliness and inattention. To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work But most examples of the construction without the possessive form are obviously due to mere slovenliness.... The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. Others affect an opposite slovenliness, which shows equal disregard of use and effectiveness. The Etiquette of To-day He would have regarded this as a mere piece of slovenliness, like leaving the last page illegible. Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens But if these fail to be developed, dishonesty or superficiality, slovenliness in dress and speech, and surliness in manner, may and do become equally habitual. Human Traits and their Social Significance A more serious criticism would address itself to the permitted slovenliness. Irish Books and Irish People He disliked leaving things vague or undetermined and never allowed slovenliness or makeshifts. My Reminiscences All slovenliness in the performance of the service, all irreverence, or signs of inattention, and indifference, are tokens of a want of thankfulness. The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles But in the faint hint of slovenliness, in the shaking, eager hand that spilled the liquor, and in the nervous, vacillating eyes, Grief read the unmistakable marks of the chronic alcoholic. A Son Of The Sun It is with a sense of pain and humiliation, as if a dishonour were being done to human nature, that we see a funeral at which everything betokens hurry, shabbiness and slovenliness. The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion If the child could but grasp the bare truth, if one could but pull away the veil of the years and show him the careless natural joy ending in the dingy, broken slovenliness of failure! Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset For instance, the one habit of negligence, slovenliness, makes it easier to form others equally bad, until the entire character is honeycombed by the invasion of a family of bad habits. Pushing to the Front It is an indication, we are willing to hope, of nothing worse than slovenliness on the part of the writer or the group or succession of writers. The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels The too common tendency in us all to moral slovenliness, and a lazy contentment with a little flaccid protest against evil, finds a constant rebuke in his career. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 3 (of 3) Essay 2: The Death of Mr Mill - Essay 3: Mr Mill's Autobiography Are not slovenliness and filth the virtues of republics, while neatness and elegance are vices of court-growth, and expand into their most ramified and minute perfectness of polish only in the palaces of kings? Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, March 1844 Volume 23, Number 3 The glaring defeat of most of our volunteer regiments, from the beginning to this day, has lain in slovenliness and remissness as to every department of military duty, except the actual fighting and dying. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 It is not the shabbiness that is unavoidable, but the slovenliness that is avoidable, that the world frowns upon. Pushing to the Front He did so with the utmost delicacy, for it was all an indirect indictment of my own slovenliness and sinful carelessness. My New Curate When not well developed, it indicates lack of self-esteem, slovenliness and indifference to personal appearance. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference The appreciative listener should be able to know whether a lack of diction on the singer's part means immaturity or simply slovenliness. Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing The security is tacit in the earlier papers here reprinted; in the later ones it is more declared, and becomes somewhat careless, though it can never beget slovenliness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Usually these go together, neatness of attire indicating a sanitary care of the person, while outward slovenliness suggests a carelessness for appearance that probably goes deeper than the clothes covering the body. Pushing to the Front Books were strewn here and there, but there was no slovenliness or untidiness; and, ha! there were the first signs of work on the white sheets of manuscript paper. My New Curate I have had plenty of opportunity of testing this slovenliness in the collection of manuscripts of portions of Lavengro that have come into my possession. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends There was no more excuse for slovenliness than might have been allowed to a regiment in huts at Aldershott or Shorncliffe. Border and Bastille In the matter of language this rapidity and carelessness often degenerated into downright slovenliness. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters Better cleanliness on any terms than utter slovenliness. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 437 Volume 17, New Series, May 15, 1852 Yet they will not bear any close inspection, without revealing themselves as monuments of slovenliness and dirt. A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden The characterisation is adroitly done and the workmanship avoids that slovenliness which makes nineteen out of twenty books of this kind a weariness of spirit to the perceptive. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-11-03 But I had not paper enough to recover the walls, as I used the rest for my bed-chamber; therefore it remained, a lasting memorial of my slovenliness and bad workmanship. Jethou or Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles Indifference and inattention to dress is a defect of character rather than virtue, and often denotes indolence and slovenliness. Our Deportment Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society Slovenliness in planning is as bad as slovenliness in expression. Public Speaking In spite of this slovenliness in detail there is colour and light in all recollections of Baghdad's dusty streets. A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden Nor, again, is Mill right in saying that this contradiction is due to 'slovenliness of thought.' Is Life Worth Living? Shaving in the trenches was made compulsory in March, as it was thought that it kept the men from deteriorating and would prevent any tendency to slovenliness. The Story of the "9th King's" in France There is no memory work, but the mind is kept on the stretch, and the exercise is wholesome as combating confusion of thought and slovenliness of expression. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar One term you simply had to wear a dark blue-and-white tie for going into the town and bear's grease your hair; another term a certain slovenliness in dress was the thing. Secret Bread Pestalozzi was diffident, and in dress and manner careless to the point of slovenliness; Froebel was extravagant in his self-confidence, and at times almost a dandy in attire. Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel translated and annotated by Emilie Michaelis ... and H. Keatley Moore. This inconsistency is here, however, only a side point—a passing illustration of the slovenliness of the positivist logic. Is Life Worth Living? He did reform operatic performances by insisting on precision and intelligence in place of slovenliness and stupidity, on enthusiasm for art in place of stolid indifference; and he did as much in the concert-room. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas The soil, the slovenliness, is washed out of every calling by its touch. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe It is not roughing it to eat tinned food out of the tin when a plate costs a penny or two: it is either hypocrisy or slovenliness. The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology Is not all inattention of mind to the courtesies of life, all roughness and slovenliness, all crude unconventionality which is proud of its self-assertion, a "falling from love" in seeking self? The Education of Catholic Girls Knowing the South Seas from hearsay and by travel, he knew something of that inertia which blunted the fineness, innate and acquired, of white men and women, the eternal warfare against indifference and slovenliness. The Ragged Edge Callous indifference to the beauty of fine music and complete slovenliness in every detail of the rendering of it went hand in hand. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas The method of cultivation differs in several respects from that practised in the Gangetic plains, but the editor never observed the slovenliness of which the author complains. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official I simply fail to understand why you should allow our mode of life to condemn you to perpetual slovenliness. The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith The practice of arranging the congregation in seats for which they pay seems to me more irreligious than the slovenliness of the heathen and makes the whole performance resemble a very dull concert. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Abhorring slovenliness and the Jacobin motley, he would not affect them. Lewis Rand Alike in life and in art he hated sloth,—the slovenliness of the "ungirt loin" and of the indecisive touch. Robert Browning Seeing that I must play it, and that there is that within me which cries out against slovenliness, I play it as an artist should. Audrey One exception I noteD to the general slovenliness of the graves. Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) Against these attributes their pig-headedness, narrow-mindedness, laziness, and slovenliness had to be admitted. South African Memories Social, Warlike & Sporting from Diaries Written at the Time Where there are carking cares, querulousness, untidiness, slovenliness, and dirt, there can be little comfort either for man or woman. Thrift She was a small woman, lean, wrinkled, and with a curious mixture of primness and slovenliness in her dress. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 He was dressed with extraordinary slovenliness and indifference to clothes, had no collar, I think, and evidently did not know what he had on. Italian Journeys It is the fashion here that every one should have a growl at the general slimness and slovenliness of our department. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 30, September, 1873 The fact is, critics, with their habitual slovenliness, apply the term "sensibility" to two different things. Since Cézanne The general effect was of attempted splendor, which had resulted in slovenliness and straggling confusion. Daniel Webster If one is struck by the magnificence of the great towns of the Continent, one should ratiocinate, and conclude that a major characteristic of the great towns of England is their shabby and higgledy-piggledy slovenliness. The Author's Craft He was tolerant of colloquial concessions that never lapsed into vulgarity; even his slips and slovenlinesses are those of the well-bred. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities He detects a colloquial slovenliness in a phrase. Cock Lane and Common-Sense They went about the flat in a wonderful state of unkempt and insecure slovenliness. The Pretty Lady Such a propensity did not make for progress, for poverty begets slovenliness in all ages and among all races of men. Crusaders of New France A Chronicle of the Fleur-de-Lis in the Wilderness Chronicles of America, Volume 4 This colloquial slovenliness of speech is almost universal in this country, but freedom of speech is one of our most precious possessions. Write It Right A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults The woman we worship is always a phenomenon, whether of beauty, or grace, or virtue--till we find her out; and then, probably, she becomes a phenomenon of deceit, or slovenliness, or bad temper! In the Days of My Youth Then I went to Marlborough, and I was dreadfully unhappy, I hated everything and everybody—the ugliness and slovenliness of it all, the noise, the fuss, the stink. Father Payne And how little the representatives of the people care for the litigation or trouble or expense that their own slovenliness causes the people! Popular Law-making Nor is there any ground for believing that the slovenliness was invariably intentional. Sterne In any other land, they would be held to represent slovenliness, sordidness, and want of capacity. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) Athletics fosters slovenliness of dress and manners, while manual training cultivates the love of the beautiful. Composition-Rhetoric His dress was indeed light and careless, but it was the carelessness of breeding, not slovenliness. Hodge and His Masters The most important statute of the United States is perhaps the most horrible example of slovenliness, bad form, and contradiction of all. Popular Law-making Isn't it distressing?—and so bad for growing children to see so much slovenliness. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 25, 1919 The answer comes back, 'No; all jumped'; and you perceive with a sense of personal insult that this slovenliness of the mountain is an affair which may touch your own sacred self. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) The bright day certainly brought out the accumulating slovenliness of the Skinner couple more vividly than he had ever seen it before. The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth His wife had died shortly after his retirement from business, and the old codger stamped in rage at the slovenliness and laziness displayed by his servants. The Torrent Entre Naranjos The soil, the slovenliness is washed out of every calling by its touch. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843 Now it was a scene of slovenliness and dust, of miserable lives huddled thickly in inadequate houses, of cheap roomers and boarders, of squalid poverty—a mix of many nations well-sprinkled with saloons. The Nine-Tenths Some people fancy that slovenliness of attire indicates a mind above petty details. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 I won't encourage your slovenliness of thought, my boy, by telling you what you can know for yourself if you like. Martin Hewitt, Investigator But there comes in the difference between him and Scott, whom he condemns for the slovenliness of hasty workmanship. Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial Note, by the way, the slovenliness of this epistle, as coming from so great a master of style; that defect characterizes all his correspondence. Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake He was extremely thin and loosely built, and his clothes seemed to hang awry, giving him an air of slovenliness which became surprising when one noted how scrupulously neat and clean he was. The Price She Paid But for him the housekeeping would have been in the familiar tenement fashion of slovenliness and filth, and the family would have been neat only on Sundays, and only on the surface then. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise No amount of reasoning can convince me that outward slovenliness is not a sign of inward and moral supineness. Worldly Ways and Byways Her voice became a little peremptory, and instinctively she suppressed inattention and corrected slovenliness. Of Human Bondage It enables food to be kept from decomposition, but it also lessens the need for cleanliness and encourages neglect and slovenliness in factories. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 She felt that she must rise to the situation, must teach herself, must save herself from impending dowdiness and slovenliness. The Price She Paid Thus, she was not an aid but a hindrance, an encourager of the help in laziness and slovenliness. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise But we reclaim youths from the slovenliness of their native village or workshop and make them tidy and mannerly citizens.” Worldly Ways and Byways It went along with other points of conduct in Mr. Farebrother which were exceptionally fine, and made his character resemble those southern landscapes which seem divided between natural grandeur and social slovenliness. Middlemarch With intended slovenliness he affixed the signature and seal, then threw the pen to the floor. An Enemy to the King There was neither foppery nor slovenliness in his exterior, nor had he any marks of military service or rank about his person. Woodstock; or, the Cavalier And over all the same air of personal slovenliness and ill-breeding. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II One finds, however, nothing of Orientalism in the regulations of this body of troops; not the least negligence or slovenliness is allowed in the most trifling detail. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 THE TEMPER.—Nothing is more unpleasant—slovenliness, perhaps, excepted—than a bad temper. The Young Woman's Guide In his maturity all that remained of early dandyism was an intolerance of every kind of slovenliness. Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 Is it not far rather the presence of the s already in the sound satisfying an ear accustomed to the English slovenliness in the pronunciation of double consonants? Among My Books Second Series And Laura, scanning him with some closeness, noticed with distaste a good many signs of personal slovenliness and ill-breeding. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II When he gets out of this aphorismic metre into a sentence of five or six lines long, nothing can exceed the slovenliness of the English. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Every one can avoid vulgarity and slovenliness; and in these days, when the fashions travel by telegraph, one can be la mode. Manners and Social Usages Mere slovenliness of pronunciation is a totally different matter. America To-day, Observations and Reflections But who shall deny that the base of almost all human unhappiness is just this inaction, manifesting itself in slovenliness of thought and execution, education, and ideal? Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series We had evidently caught the household stripped of "lugs," and sunk in the down-at-the-heel slovenliness which it called "comfort." The Deluge "Art" of the copper punching variety replaces any decent attempt to draw, and an extreme expressiveness in music compensates for an almost deliberate slovenliness of technique. Mankind in the Making To proceed on any other assumption would not only be to ignore the all-powerful first-night audience, but to plunge into a veritable morass of inconsistencies, dubieties and slovenlinesses. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship Let him whose own enunciation is chemically free from localism or slovenliness cast the first stone even at "mebbe" and "ruther." America To-day, Observations and Reflections The Beau went to the opera, as usual, and drove away from it clear off to Dover, whence the packet took him to safety and slovenliness in the ancient town of Calais. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 There is no slovenliness in the workmanship, and success is attained by honest, straightforward endeavour. A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 Others anthematised him for his slovenliness, casting hypercritical glances into their pots and pans, and scraping them with their knives. White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War The voices of the sleepy porters on the quay roused in him a craving for the gentle slovenliness of Irish speech. Hyacinth There is a degree of slovenliness sometimes observable in those who manage children, both when they are sick and when they are in health, which even common sense cannot and ought not to tolerate. The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health At last the Beau was reduced to the level of that slovenliness which he had considered as the next step to perdition. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 2 The true mind would be one in which faith and criticism were so tempered as to secure width without slovenliness, and exactitude without narrowness. The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) Here was no effort to ape the forms of a cathedral, but neither was there any careless, cheap slovenliness. John Wesley, Jr. The Story of an Experiment As a precaution against slovenliness you should cultivate freshness and accuracy. The Century Vocabulary Builder Corpulence and slovenliness are generally among the more prolific sources of a want of acuteness in feeling. The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health All this manoeuvring for space in such close quarters was great fun for lads accustomed to roomy houses, and careless, almost to slovenliness, in the matter of keeping things in place. The Iron Game A Tale of the War The lack of adequate supervision and the general slovenliness prevailing made it easy for me to go about unchallenged. The Secrets of the German War Office He had that old-fashioned, lawyer-like morality which was keenly intolerant of any laxity or slovenliness of mind or character. Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 Their tastes and distastes were so synonymous; they hated hypocrisy, vulgarity, slovenliness, imitations. The Moccasin Maker Pride, even vanity, is less of a vice than slovenliness, my dear. Flowing Gold The most important tool for the carrying on of life is- language; the slovenliness and inadequacy of the average man's speech is a sad commentary on our boasted educational system. Problems of Conduct At the time of her husband's death she was at the point where graceful inactivity so often degenerates into slovenliness. A Life's Morning His manifest black eye, and an unwonted slovenliness of appearance, could not but suggest that he had taken leave of the bygone year in a too fervid spirit. The Town Traveller Yet her appearance could hardly be called disconcerting, for it had nothing of slovenliness. Denzil Quarrier Moreover, his uniform was faded and travel-stained, his close-cropped beard and hair were unkempt, and his attire was careless to the point of slovenliness. On the Trail of Grant and Lee There is doubtless little conscious deception; but there is a great deal of misstatement which is inexcusable, and due either to slovenliness, lack of proper training, or partisanship. Problems of Conduct Don't you think you dislike such things more than—" "Any one must abominate dirt and slovenliness. The Daisy chain, or Aspirations It looks like slovenliness, but it may be only art. Christian Science At her receptions as in other salons of Paris, his toilet, neglected at times to the point of slovenliness, yet always displayed some distinguishing peculiarity. Women in the Life of Balzac At home he had fallen into the slovenliness that marks a disappointed old age. That Fortune "This is not disorder, but the usual Russian slovenliness," Markelov replied gloomily. Virgin Soil Handsome enough, some of them must once have been; now sunk in slovenliness, uncleanliness, in disrespect to womanhood. All Roads Lead to Calvary The matter is not of much consequence, except as an instance of that slovenliness of thinking which is often concealed beneath a peculiar ostentation of logical neatness. Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 Indeed, her whole face lacked color, as did her personality, and the exquisite tea-gown which she wore conveyed that odd impression of slovenliness, which is often an indication of secret vice. The Yellow Claw Stephen T. Logan "had that old-fashioned, lawyer-like morality which was keenly intolerant of any laxity or slovenliness of mind or character." Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War Mrs Whelpdale affected no literary slovenliness; she was dressed in light colours, and looked so lovely that even Jasper paused on the threshold with a smile of admiration. New Grub Street The meals, in general, are coarse and poor in quality, and served with gross slovenliness. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft He never wore gloves, and generally kept his hands stuffed into his empty trousers' pockets; the soiled pocket-holes, almost always torn, added a final touch to the slovenliness of his person. The Commission in Lunacy It was annoying to come upon that everlasting slovenliness in the farm work against which he had been striving with all his might for so many years. Anna Karenina Prothero lapsed readily into ostentatious slovenliness, when his hands were dirty he pitied them sooner than scrubbed them, he would have worn an overcoat with one tail torn off rather than have gone cold. The Research Magnificent Everywhere the same slovenliness, the same disorder, was displaying itself unadorned: the only difference being that a fresh puddle had formed in the middle of the village street. Dead Souls He did not want to shave in the train, but I made him at one of the Swiss stations—I dislike these Oxford slovenlinesses—and then confound him! he cut himself and bled.... The New Machiavelli With the former everything was of the antiquated and rough-hewn and ill-fitting and unsuitable and badly-adapted and inferior kind; their heads were full of nothing but discord and triviality and confusion and slovenliness of thought. Dead Souls |
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