slatternly
Carelessly dirty, disheveled
Slatternly describes a woman who is slovenly, untidy, or sluttish in appearance or habits.
The word is old-fashioned and carries moral judgment—a slatternly woman neglects not just her housekeeping but her respectability: a slatternly landlady in a stained housecoat.
The noun slattern, from which it derives, means a slovenly woman or prostitute.
Untidy in appearance
- messyLacking order or neatness
- rumpledCrinkled from neglect
- tousledDisordered, especially hair
- bedraggledWet, dirty, untidy
mussed · tangled · straggly · matted · disarranged · windblown · uncombed · raggedy
Lacking neatness or order
- sloppyCareless and untidy
- grubbySoiled and unkempt
- scruffyMessily neglected in appearance
- shabbyWorn and neglected
frumpy · frowsy · slipshod · slobbish · careless · haphazard · disorderly · dowdy
unkempt
Untidy in appearance
bedraggled · mussed · tangled · straggly · matted · disarranged · windblown · uncombed · raggedy · frowzy
untidy
Lacking neatness or order
shabby · frumpy · frowsy · slipshod · slobbish · careless · haphazard · disorderly · dowdy · draggled
dirty
Not clean
soiled · stained · greasy · smudged · unwashed · grubby · musty · fusty · foul · unclean
cheap
Low in price
meretricious · brassy · flashy · tarty · whorish · loose · promiscuous · immodest · indecent · lewd