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Having the habits of a sloven; negligent of neatness and order, especially in dress. A slovenly, lazy fellow, bolling at his ease. L'Estrange.

A slovenly woman; a slattern; a draggle-tail.

Showing a vulgar taste in dress; awkward and slovenly in dress; vulgar-looking. -- Dow"di*ly, adv. -- Dow"di*ness, n.

Fetid, musty; rank; disordered and offensive to the smell or sight; slovenly; dingy. See Frowzy. "Petticoats in frouzy heaps." Swift.

Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy. "With head all frowzy." Spenser. The frowzy soldiers' wives hanging out clothes. W. D. Howells.

to follow hard: as, hungry want is at my heels. Otway. -- To be down at the heel, to be slovenly or in a poor plight. -- To be out at the heels, to have on stockings that are worn out; hence, to be shabby, or in a poor plight. Shak. -- To cool the heels. See under Cool. -- To go heels over head, to turn over so as…

Confused; disorderly; slovenly; mean; as, hugger-mugger doings.

Unconcernedness; incuriosity. Sordid incuriousness and slovenly neglect. Bp. Hall.

A professional builder who erects cheap dwellings of poor materials and unsubstantial and slovenly construction.

To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing. The aged creature came Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand. Keats.

Figuratively: Careless in dress, manners, style, etc.; slovenly; shuffling; as, slipshod manners; a slipshod or loose style of writing. Thy wit shall ne'er go slipshod. Shak.

A slovenly farmer; a jobbing tailor. [Prov. Eng.]

he manufacture of slops, or cheap ready-made clothing; also, such clothing; hence, hasty, slovenly work of any kind. No slopwork ever dropped from his [Carlyle's] pen. Froude.

The quality or state of being slovenly.

In a slovenly, or hurried and imperfect, manner. [Low] Drayton.

A foolish or thoughtless young person, esp. a slothful or slovenly woman. [Scot.] Burns.

Not tidy or neat; slovenly. -- Un*ti"di*ly, adv. -- Un*ti"di*ness, n.