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Sluttish

//ˈslʌtɪʃ// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Like a slut; sexually promiscuous. vulgar

    "His name was perhaps the least likely ever to have been young: it evoked for me the sunless complexion, unaired suiting, steel-rimmed glasses of a ledger clerk in a vanished age. Or had done so, before I found my beautiful, cocky, sluttish Arthur—an Arthur it was impossible to imagine old."

  2. 2
    Dirty or untidy; disorderly. dated

    "[…] an air of liberal, though sluttish, plenty, indicated the wealthy farmer."

Adjective
  1. 1
    casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior wordnet
  2. 2
    characteristic of or befitting a slut or slattern; used especially of women wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English scluttish, slottesche, slottysch, sluttissche, sluttissh; equivalent to slut + -ish.

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