What's the difference between ballyhoo and slovenly?

Ballyhoo


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sandbech, McMorris and Winter X Games champion Max Parrot were among those who threw the much-ballyhooed triple cork, which is three head-over-heels flips considered way more dangerous and athletic and presumed to be the must-have trick to win the first Olympic gold in this sport’s history.
  • (2) It also opens a window into Trump’s much ballyhooed Twitter account, which has served as an aggressive outlet for the Republican frontrunner’s views, where he often retweets supporters.
  • (3) He went to Hamburg knowing the much-ballyhooed encounter with his US counterpart was a “win-win”, as Andrei Kolesnikov, a political analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Centre, put it to the New York Times .
  • (4) The Giants, so far, have DOMINATED EVERY aspect of the game, from pitching to fielding to hitting, just like they dominated the much ballyhooed Texas Rangers with the "invincible" Cliff Lee and the messiah Josh Hamilton in the 2010 World Series.
  • (5) The ref wags his finger at both players but decides against showing any cards, probably because he didn't have a clear view of the ballyhoo.
  • (6) 2.37pm BST Here's an animation produced by Nasa explaining its mission to capture an asteroid: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close 2.36pm BST A group of Nasa directors discusses the agency's much-ballyhooed plan to capture an asteroid and then mine it for research.
  • (7) However his much ballyhooed $475 golden iPhone case, the foto.sosho , produced by his wearable tech company, i.am+, was less successful.
  • (8) Read more The former vice-presidential candidate announced her endorsement of the Republican frontrunner at a much ballyhooed event which took place inside a heated barn on the Iowa State University campus.
  • (9) The problem with the much-ballyhooed and thoroughly underwhelming changes to food labeling is that these modifications are not only minor and still subject to a long rulemaking process, but, on the issue of portion size, these proposals only affect 27 of the 157 product categories subject to portion rules.
  • (10) So far this seems like full spectrum domination, the same way they dominated the much ballyhooed Cliff Lee, Josh Hamilton and the Texas Rangers in the 2010 World Series.

Slovenly


Definition:

  • (adv.) a slovenly manner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) James has had to deal with a couple of speculative crosses from the Slovenes in this half, but nothing dramatic.
  • (2) Results of the inquiry among Slovene physicians regarding their smoking habits and accompanying symptoms are presented.
  • (3) Also, even if a dangler is in no danger of being misinterpreted, enough readers have trained themselves to spot danglers that a writer who leaves it incurs the risk of being judged as slovenly.
  • (4) The Hypo bank, based in Klagenfurt in southern Austria close to the Croatian and Slovene borders, acted as financier to the late Jorg Haider, the far-right Austrian leader.
  • (5) There is no clearer indication that this is a dark time in the world's history than the fact that the director who made the slovenly, inept Watchmen is now getting to reboot Superman.
  • (6) 1339 Slovene school children have been examined for disgnaties and caries in the neighbouring areas of three countries bordering Slovene homeland: parts of Italy, Austria and Hungary, which means in different socioeconomic conditions.
  • (7) For instance he removed: "Ted looked slovenly: his suit jacket wrinkled as if being pulled from behind, his pants hanging, unbelted, in great folds, his hair black and greasy in the light."
  • (8) The slovenly accommodation, low, late and missing pay, and unsafe workplaces all result in part from the freewheeling market economics Qatar encourages in the construction sector.
  • (9) The east Europeans, Austrians and Slovenes want to help the Macedonians close the Greek border.
  • (10) Pre-season set a precedent for a turbulent few months, with Dave Hockaday sacked and replaced by Darko Milanic , the Slovene who lasted 30 days in the job.
  • (11) The Slovenes only let in four goals during qualifying, put Guus Hiddink and Andriy Arshavin's Russia out in the play-offs, in Valter Birsa and Robert Koren can boast two of the tournament's standout players so far, and in 25-year-old Udinese star Samir Handanovic have one of the most promising goalkeepers in the world.
  • (12) The visitors forged several opportunities to take maximum points from the King Power Stadium but had to settle for only one because of their slovenly finishing and good saves by Kasper Schmeichel.
  • (13) The Slovak and Slovene ministers were not far behind.
  • (14) By this was meant an end to the run of presentational accidents that made the leader’s team look amateur: the Liverpool-baiting photo of Miliband brandishing the Sun newspaper ; his slovenly public wrestle with a bacon sandwich ; failure to get a personalised message on the wreath laid at first world war commemorations .
  • (15) Can the Slovenes do anything with this rare chance?
  • (16) All this demonstrates a grisly trend of marginalising the deprived – not only in sentiment, but in slovenly language that denigrates a 21st century epidemic.
  • (17) The Croats were genocidal fascists; the Muslims of Bosnia were Islamic fundamentalists; the Albanians of Kosovo were rapists and terrorists; the Slovenes were secessionist, German-worshiping lackeys; the Germans and Austrians were bent on destroying Yugoslavia to erect a fourth reich.
  • (18) After correction for underascertainment, a prevalence of 1 in 6023 was estimated in the Slovene population (1,999,477 in 1990).
  • (19) The wily Slovene party chief, Milan Kucan, long the most acute analyst of the Milosevic peril, had called the Serb's bluff.
  • (20) Yugoslavia was formed in December 1918 as "The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes".