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Перевод: slovenliness

[существительное]
неряшливость ; разгильдяйство
[существительное]

Тезаурус:

1. Her slovenliness was a state of mind, the exteriorisation of her despair, and he saw all her faults as having the same root: bad company, bad education, bad conditions.
2. The two Jowle brothers sat opposite Melanie and Victoria, like a moral picture contrasting tidiness with slovenliness, for Francie was already painfully neat in his suit and a fresh, green tie, stabbed through, today, with a different tiepin, a small dagger.
3. He said little, as might have been expected, although one of his obiter dicta is remarkable both for its potential value, had it been publicly known, to the Soviet apologists of 1939-;40, and for the slovenliness, almost the vulgarity, of language for the occasion.
4. He cast off his home and his country because he was disgusted by its slovenliness of intellectual outlook, although he was certain (with his gifts) of success and reputation had he remained in his own land; and he was wholly unknown and unsupported when he attempted to browbeat London.
5. Who knows how many quarrels, false accusations, unnecessary dismissals, how many promising careers cut short can be attributed to a butler's slovenliness at the stage of drawing up the staff plan?
6. Orwell warned in 1946 that the English language "becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts."