slovenlily

comparative more slovenlily · superlative most slovenlily

1. In a slovenly manner.

   It is left, and must be left to servants, and they can be but under a very indifferent control, and, therefore, very slovenlily perform their duties.

   1846 March 28, Herapath’s Railway and Commercial Journal, volume VIII, number 355, London, page 434

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   It was equally notorious (continues the Colonel) that some of them, when too idle to hoe and properly prepare their ground for seed, have carelessly thrown the grain over the old stubble, chipped it in, as they termed it, going lightly over the ground with a hoe, and barely covering the seed: yet, with no greater assistance than this, the lands thus slovenlily prepared have been known to produce abundant crops.

   1804, A Concise History of the English Colony in New South Wales, from the Landing of Governor Phillip in January 1788, to May 1803; Describing Also the Dispositions, Habits, & Savage Customs of the Wandering Unfortunate Natives of That Antipodean Territory. With Some Cursory Remarks on the Treatment and Behaviour of the Convicts & Free Settlers., London: […] for the Editor by Harris, […]; Darton & Harvey, […]; Hookham and Eber, […]; and J. Tindal, […], page lxv

   This new edition of the Utopia, may be spoken of with confidence as possessing those necessary essentials which are too often omitted from negligence, or slovenlily got rid of by probability and surmise.

   1815, Egerton Brydges, Censura Literaria. Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books, with Original Disquisitions, Articles of Biography, and Other Literary Antiquities., 2nd edition, volume X, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], page 121

   The arrangement of drapery is a test of the taste, which is very rarely favourable to the artist. They are either rendered ostentatiously prominent or slovenlily immaterial, as the painter may happen or not to possess skill in their delineation; […]

   1831, “Dogmas on Art.—No. VII. On the Education of an Artist.—(Continued.)”, in Library of the Fine Arts; or Repertory of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and Engraving, volume II, number 9, London: […] M. Arnold, […]; Simpkin and Marshall, […]; W. F. Wakeman, […]; and Oliver and Boyd, […], page 198

   Turner seems to paint slovenlily—daubing, as one would say; […] The drapery is very slovenlily indicated, and the hands would befit one of the Byron Beauties—a singular defect to find in a work of Haydon’s.

   1835, The Spectator. A Weekly Journal of News, Politics, Literature, and Science., volume the eighth, London: […] Joseph Clayton, […], pages 164 and 926

   The nest is loosely and rather slovenlily constructed of coarse dry grasses and stalks externally, lined sometimes with fine grass,—sometimes with fine roots.

   1848 July, Thomas Hutton, “Notes on the Nidification of Indian Birds”, in The Secretaries, editors, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume XVII, part II, number XIX, Calcutta: […] J. Thomas, Baptist Mission Press, page 7

   Synonyms: slovenly