(v. t.) To grant; to acknowledge; to admit to be true; to confess; to recognize in a particular character; as, we own that we have forfeited your love.
(a.) Belonging to; belonging exclusively or especially to; peculiar; -- most frequently following a possessive pronoun, as my, our, thy, your, his, her, its, their, in order to emphasize or intensify the idea of property, peculiar interest, or exclusive ownership; as, my own father; my own composition; my own idea; at my own price.
(a.) To hold as property; to have a legal or rightful title to; to be the proprietor or possessor of; to possess; as, to own a house.
Example Sentences:
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".