Synonyms of slovenly

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adjective

as in sloppy

lacking neatness in dress or person

for the sake of their image, the band members transformed themselves from clean-cut lads to slovenly rockers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sloppy
• wrinkled
• shaggy
• unkempt
• untidy
• messy
• sloven
• blowsy
• dowdy
• frowzy
• slobbish
• slobby
• filthy
• frowsy
• blowzy
• chaotic
• confused
• dirty
• slatternly
• disheveled
• rumpled
• dishevelled
• disordered
• cluttered
• shabby
• uncombed
• stained
• muddled
• disarranged
• nasty
• blackened
• grimy
• unclean
• squalid
• dingy
• grubby
• sleazy
• soiled
• messed
• grungy
• mussy
• mucky
• mussed
• foul
• uncleanly
• scuzzy
• spotted
• scroungy
• sullied
• besmirched

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• smart
• dapper
• fashionable
• sharp
• stylish
• chic
• dashing
• spruce
• modish
• orderly
• neat
• tidy
• careful
• groomed
• fastidious
• meticulous
• combed
• clean
• fussy
• ordered
• cleaned
• immaculate
• spotless
• dolled up
• unsoiled
• unsullied
• sparkling
• stainless
• cleanly

slovenly

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adverb

as in sloppily

in a careless or unfashionable manner

an employee who went overboard on dress-down day and was reprimanded for dressing slovenly on the job

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sloppily
• chaotically
• slatternly
• dowdily
• untidily
• shabbily
• messily
• foully
• filthily
• nastily
• dirtily
• sleazily
• grubbily
• dingily

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• smart
• sharply
• orderly
• smartly
• neatly
• tidily
• nattily
• fashionably
• carefully
• fastidiously
• meticulously
• sprucely
• modishly
• immaculately
• cleanly
• spotlessly
• fussily