| Vain, shallow and slatternly, it is not what our grandfathers died for. |
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| Housework in the 1950s was also a big deal, and I say that not with the slatternly view that not all dirt is a bad thing, but rather in admiration. |
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| The slatternly, drunken woman is a cypher for Mother's Ruin, contemporary slang for gin. |
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| Merely reading about such slatternly ways is probably enough to have the hygiene freaks among you reaching for your hand sanitiser. |
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| The latter had seven children and a slatternly wife who drank and broke her marriage vows, too. |
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| But her real trick was to play a slatternly character in glitter and plumes, without condescending or making her comical. |
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| Now I wonder how he sees my slatternly ways given his own promptness. |
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| As Sylvie's grandmother would say, Sylvie is slovenly, slatternly. |
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| His befuddled father, Thomas Haden Church, his slatternly stepmother, Gina Gershon, and even his wide-eyed sister, Juno Temple, go along with his plan. |
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| Being a light-complexioned woman, she wore light clothes, as most blondes will, and appeared, in preference, in draggled sea-green, or slatternly sky-blue. |
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