For behind the slovenly manners and the unkempt appearance was steely mettle and rapier sharp wit.

In the slovenly manner of the Kalkars the saddles and bridles lay in the dirt in the aisle behind the horses.

They worked in a very slovenly manner, scooping the ashes out with their hands and throwing them upon the ground.

Footsteps were descending below somewhere, in the same slovenly manner as before.

And he wished the man wouldn't slouch in that slovenly manner.

You rhyme in a slovenly manner.

"Yes, my friend," he added, with increasing grief, "it seems that I rhyme in a slovenly manner."

I was drinking in a slovenly wretched manner from a bowl of brew.

The worst job is that they will do their work in a slovenly manner when kept in pots (549/3.

In those days everything in the islands was done in a slovenly, slouching manner.