slovenliness
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- n a lack of order and tidiness; not cared for
- n habitual uncleanliness
- He accused the industry's executives of slovenliness, deception and dishonestyand warned them that they had better straighten up or else face much stricter controls.
- His own narrow character would not let him love the whole of his friend's; he could neither overlook nor forgive Johnson's slovenliness, his fondness for taverns, his unfailing .
- He made it clear that he suspected foul play, calling the ruble's plunge an act "of sabotage or the manifestation of a policy of extreme irresponsibility and slovenliness by the .