| He is a sloven, indeed, who would crop his peach-orchard with grass or grain. |
| A sloven, except on Sundays and courting-days, and then only clean on the outside. |
| He had seen the sloven tilled decks and the savage-eyed crew. |
| Yet Seibei is grave and self-possessed, not a sloven but a man committed to various duties-among them the care of his dotty mother and his two beloved children. |
| Battered, weather-beaten taxis, driven by sloven drivers, their shirts unbuttoned, looking as weather-beaten as their vehicles. |
| I help the auctioneer, the sloven does not half know his business. |
