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If Tupac is hip-hop's Gandhi, the peeling Bob Marley poster on the wall of a generation of students, Biggie was the single greatest talent hip-hop ever produced: fat, slovenly , proud of eating sardines from a can, rapping about sexual inadequacies, and then – once he'd made it – about the fake adulation that came with wealth and power.
He need not say that on such occasions the solemn services of the Church were performed in a slovenly , irregular and indecent manner … The owners of private grounds closed by the government were not inclined to go quietly; they were, after all, losing the entirety of their business.
All this demonstrates a grisly trend of marginalising the deprived – not only in sentiment, but in slovenly language that denigrates a 21st century epidemic.
The curly-haired great-grandson of impoverished Russian aristocrats and an Abyssinian boy given to Peter the Great, Pushkin was a down-to-earth, outspoken man with long fingernails and slovenly habits who liked to write best of all in bed.
There are hopes, too, of raising money by selling the army's notoriously corrupt and slovenly network of distribution, retailing and catering businesses, if a buyer can be found.But most of this is tinkering.
The number of daily flights between Delhi, India's political capital, and Mumbai, its commercial one, has gone up from three, on one slovenly state-owned airline, to 22, on three competing airlines (including the former monopolist, which has improved its service).Not only jet-setters have noticed.
The sweeping steps that rise from the harbour to the statue of the city's greatest and best-loved governor, Armand, Duc de Richelieu, are overshadowed by an ugly modern ferry terminal; the grand old hotels are slovenly and ill-run.
It seems that the slovenly teenager, not to mention the purse-lipped schoolmaster, is at least 4,000 years old.
They resent the slovenly Syrian checkpoints that still dot the country, as well as their own government for steering a foreign-policy course set in Damascus.
Both were out on a limb, ferociously challenging the slovenly relativism of everyone else.
Richard Nixon was too authentic by half: he lost his 1960 face-off with John Kennedy for want of a bit of powder which could have concealed his stubbly chin.Perhaps the last, best example of the authentically slovenly politician is sitting in a prison cell in Rochester, New York.
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The word "slovenly" primarily functions as an adjective . It modifies nouns to describe a lack of cleanliness, order, or care. Ludwig provides examples showcasing its use in various contexts, aligning with its grammatical role.
Expression frequency: Very common
