Slatternly

They are generally called blue-stockings, are described as slatternly in their dress and always as having their fingertips dabbled with ink. ❋ Patricia O'Toole (2008)

Superbly situated, magnificently endowed as to climate, the _chef-lieu_ of the Bouches du Rhône must be called a slatternly beauty; whilst embellishing herself, putting on her jewels and splendid attire, she has forgotten to wash her face and trim her hair! ❋ Matilda Betham-Edwards (1877)

Playing the malevolent, abrasive junkie single mother of a missing kidnap victim, a slatternly, slack-jawed racist, Ryan adopted a drunkard's waxen pallor, honked up the full braying working-class Boston accent and, in those seven minutes, ran a gamut of emotions, from sullen resentment to inappropriate levity and a final descent into abject sobbing – a magnificent shipwreck of a performance. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Dominic Cooper is a fatuous rock star, and Jessica Barden is a wondrously funny teenager, and slatternly deus ex machina, who adores him. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2010)

"Young Adult" : Charlize Theron as a slatternly, hilariously nasty writer of young-adult novels who is, in fact, delusional in her determination to reconnect with a high-school sweetheart and rescue him from a marriage she imagines to be unhappy. ❋ Joe Morgenstern (2011)

Or Martin Honeysett's grisly depiction of a fat, slatternly woman watching TV while surrounded by a mess of ashtrays, empty beer cans and fast food boxes. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He started to leave the room, tripping over a loose seam in the slatternly carpet. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She was a large, stout woman, always dressed slatternly and always tired from the burdens of her flesh, her work, and her husband. ❋ Unknown (2010)

All the life about him - the odors of stale vegetables and soapsuds, the slatternly form of his sister, and the jeering face of Mr. Higginbotham - was a dream. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Martin went into the kitchen with a sinking heart, the image of her red face and slatternly form eating its way like acid into his brain. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Warner had no idea why she wanted to play a slatternly and unlikeable character like Mildred Rogers, but Bette knew that it was the opportunity of a lifetime. ❋ Elizabeth Kerri Mahon (2010)

With her slatternly come-ons and complete array of every tired trope imaginable from the backstabbing girl to the cheating boy, Ke$ha has created the perfect album for community college dropouts in dead-end jobs who live to go clubbing on the weekend and aspire to be Snooki from “Jersey Shore.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

A year of this luxury, and then to return to his dingy lodgings in Harlem with their faded brown curtains, worn leather chairs, and tattered rugs; once more to be hounded by the loan-sharks, to make furtive rounds of the dusty pawn-shops again, to beg for time from the slatternly landlady -- his whole being revolted at the thought of it all. ❋ Johnny Pez (2010)

And yet, before we even get fairly started, we are invited to believe in a world of seedy lobster boardinghouses with slatternly lady lobsters in satin slips giving their lobster lovers the go-ahead. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The viewer assumes that the scenes in which they are slatternly and angry with each other off-screen are a joke, but is it just possible that there are elements of genuine confession amid the jokey pretence? ❋ Unknown (2010)

The second film written and directed by Andrea Arnold (Red Road), an exponent of the Ken Loach film school of naturalistic dialogue and kitchen-sink naturalism, Fish Tank is a heartbreaking coming-of-age story about 15-year-old Mia (Jarvis), a tortured, combustible girl who lives in an ugly subsidized housing estate with her combative younger sister and foulmouthed, slatternly mother, venting her pent-up rage on her family, classmates and neighbors. ❋ Unknown (2010)

That [women] [sleeps] with every man she [runs] into. She is so slatternly. ❋ Rbs1 (2007)

Only a [slattern] would slatternly help [Michael] find his [jacket]. ❋ MayHem07 (2008)