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slovenly

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of slovenly

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 of slovenly

blowsy (also blowzy), dowdy, frowsy (or frowzy), slobbish, slobby, sloppy, sloven, unkempt, untidy
Words Related to slovenly

slatternly

chaotic, cluttered, confused, disarranged, disheveled (or dishevelled), disordered, messed, messy, muddled, mussed, mussy, rumpled, shaggy, uncombed, wrinkled

shabby, sleazy

besmirched, blackened, dingy, dirty, filthy, foul, grimy, grubby, grungy, mucky, nasty, scroungy, scuzzy [slang], soiled, spotted, squalid, stained, sullied, unclean, uncleanly
Near Antonyms of slovenly

chic, fashionable, modish, stylish

combed, groomed

neat, ordered, orderly, tidy

careful, fastidious, fussy, meticulous

clean, cleaned, cleanly, immaculate, sparkling, spotless, stainless, unsoiled, unsullied
Antonyms of slovenly

dapper, dashing, dolled up, sharp, smart, spruce

slovenly

adverb

Synonyms and Antonyms of slovenly

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 of slovenly

dowdily, sloppily
Words Related to slovenly

slatternly

chaotically, messily, untidily

shabbily, sleazily

dingily, dirtily, filthily, foully, grubbily, nastily
Near Antonyms of slovenly

neatly, orderly, tidily

fashionably, modishly

carefully, fastidiously, fussily, meticulously

cleanly, immaculately, spotlessly
Antonyms of slovenly

nattily, sharply, smart, smartly, sprucely

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