0 the quality of being untidy and dirty:
I visited two factories and was amazed by the dirt and slovenliness everywhere.
I hate the casual slovenliness on the Tube, as passengers leave rubbish everywhere.
He was standing there in clothes indicative of utter slovenliness and indifference to appearances.
There seemed nothing much wrong with the ship aside from general neglect and slovenliness.
His head teacher had laid down a policy of stitching the boys' pockets shut to discourage slovenliness.
What more massive indictment of inefficiency, short-sightedness and slovenliness in government can be attributed to them than that?
If they are met by anything like slackness or slovenliness of instruction, they at once become disgusted.
It prevents anything like slovenliness in the presentation of a prosecution.
That kind of criticism brought against such a scheme as this surely is not part of his charge of slovenliness and forgetfulness.
It was their own slovenliness in that respect that has landed them in this position.
