Slattern

//ˈslætɚn//

Synonyms for "slattern" (167 found)

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Translations

15 translations across 10 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • повлекана noun (dated: dirty and untidy woman)

Czech

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  • cuchta noun (dated: dirty and untidy woman)
  • špindíra noun (dated: dirty and untidy woman)

Finnish

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  • luuska noun (dated: dirty and untidy woman)

French

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  • garce noun (dated: dirty and untidy woman)
  • salope noun (dated: dirty and untidy woman)
  • traînée noun (dated: dirty and untidy woman)

Irish

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  • abarlach noun (dated: dirty and untidy woman)

Italian

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  • sciattona noun (dated: dirty and untidy woman)

Latin

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  • lupa noun (dated: dirty and untidy woman)

Polish

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  • flejtucha noun (dated: dirty and untidy woman)

Russian

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  • грязну́ля noun (dated: dirty and untidy woman)
  • замара́шка noun (dated: dirty and untidy woman)
  • неря́ха noun (dated: dirty and untidy woman)

Spanish

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  • puerca noun (dated: dirty and untidy woman)

Sample sentences

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3. Cookery is familiar to her, with the price and quality of provisions; and she is a ready accountant. Her chief view, however, is to serve her mother and lighten her cares. She holds cleanliness and neetness to be indispensable in a woman; and that a slattern is disgusting, especially if beautiful.

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A dunce he always was, it is true; for learning cannot be acquired by leaving school and entering at college as a fellow-commoner; but he was now (in his own peculiar manner) as great a dandy as he before had been a slattern, and when he entered his sitting-room to join his two guests, arrived scented and arrayed in fine linen, and perfectly splendid in appearance.

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[…] How many times I have heard a woman called a slattern, because she could not keep a house in order, when had she been allowed to write out her sublime thoughts, which were all in another direction, she would have astonished the world with her genius.

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AMANDA: I’ve been brought up to believe that it’s beyond the pale, for a man to strike a woman. ELYOT: A very poor tradition. Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs. AMANDA: You’re an unmitigated cad, and a bully. ELYOT: And you’re an ill-mannered, bad tempered slattern. AMANDA (loudly): Slattern indeed. ELYOT: Yes, slattern, slattern, slattern, and fishwife. VICTOR: Keep your mouth shut, you swine.

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