Ma'anar ƙamus na kalmar "slovenly" ita ce:
(1) rashin tsabta, ɓarna, ko ƙazanta a bayyanar ko halaye;
(2) rashin kulawa ko sakaci a cikin aiki ko halaye;
(3) da rashin tsari ko tsafta.
This is incongruous with his otherwise slovenly appearance.
He was clad in a professional but rather slovenly fashion, for his frock-coat was dingy and his trousers frayed.
There is as much difference to my eyes between the leaded bourgeois type of a Times article and the slovenly print of an evening half-penny paper as there could be between your negro and your Esquimau.
