Meaning of slovenlily | Babel Free

Definitions

In a slovenly manner.

Examples

“It was equally notorious (continues the Colonel) that some of them, when too idle to hoe and properly prepare their ground for seed, have carelessly thrown the grain over the old stubble, chipped it in, as they termed it, going lightly over the ground with a hoe, and barely covering the seed: yet, with no greater assistance than this, the lands thus slovenlily prepared have been known to produce abundant crops.”

“This new edition of the Utopia, may be spoken of with confidence as possessing those necessary essentials which are too often omitted from negligence, or slovenlily got rid of by probability and surmise.”

“The arrangement of drapery is a test of the taste, which is very rarely favourable to the artist. They are either rendered ostentatiously prominent or slovenlily immaterial, as the painter may happen or not to possess skill in their delineation; […]”

“Turner seems to paint slovenlily—daubing, as one would say; […] The drapery is very slovenlily indicated, and the hands would befit one of the Byron Beauties—a singular defect to find in a work of Haydon’s.”

“It is left, and must be left to servants, and they can be but under a very indifferent control, and, therefore, very slovenlily perform their duties.”

“The nest is loosely and rather slovenlily constructed of coarse dry grasses and stalks externally, lined sometimes with fine grass,—sometimes with fine roots.”

“[…] in an anteroom were slovenlily scattered the head, arms, and legs, and all the disjecta membra, of another Nubian.”

“As a popular historical sketch, this part of the work has a value; but it is slovenlily written, and disgracefully printed.”

“As nearly all the medicine here is imported from Europe, ready prepared, there is little for the apothecary to do, except to preserve it from the deleterious influences of the climate, and dispense it; the former is best done in glass-stoppered bottles rendered air-tight. The dispensing in too many instances is so slovenlily done, that great danger is caused, and failure in the treatment of disease.”

“This is a volume of considerable literary pretensions; coverin[g] a wide field; bulky, well-printed but of varying, and variabl[e] interest. It is disfigured by crotchets, is by no means s[o] complete as it might have been: and its different articles ar[e] of a very unequal calibre,—some being exceedingly wel[l-]written, and others slovenlily, and without that accuracy an[d] calmness of expression which are so very necessary in [a] work of this character.”

“Loosely, slackly, slovenlily, disorderly (with verbs of tying, fastening, binding): […]”

“Now and again the leads of the tenors iand basses were taken up rather slovenlily.”

“On that case it has been sometimes observed that it was very slovenlily argued, and not very solemnly decided.”

“Slovenlily executed and utterly neglected passages are abundant.”

“Elsewhere, we read (p. 33) of “to-day in Germany,” which in 1944 is hardly to be taken literally, and suggests that the book has been slovenlily translated.”

“[…] the question must still be amended correctly and not slovenlily or carelessly, […]”

“He cannot afford to live slovenlily and miserably, staying in an apartment house or in a boarding house which he could very well afford to do so if he were not the representative of his country, like a mere tourist or a resident therein.”

“Hence Sloustering, vbl. n., working slovenlily in wet and dirt.”

“He warned them that if he caught any of them shouting without enthusiasm, or slovenlily dressed, his fate would be black.”

“[…] this, which ingenuously (or disingenuously) assumes that collectors are familiar with all the reference books, consists of such airy notes as ‘with the point on page 16’, ‘with all but one of the points called for by Heidsieck’, or simply and slovenlily ‘with all the points’.”

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