What's the difference between slattern and slatternliness?

Slattern


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman who is negligent of her dress or house; one who is not neat and nice.
  • (a.) Resembling a slattern; sluttish; slatterny.
  • (v. t.) To consume carelessly or wastefully; to waste; -- with away.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She wrote that writers such as Caitlin Moran and Bryony Gordon (the Telegraph journalist allegedly called a “slut” or “slattern” by Michael Fallon , the defence secretary) are producing hyperconfessional works that constitute an “abandoning of dignity and self-respect”.
  • (2) This may be tricky for a party famously disapproving of slatterns who don't clean behind their fridges, but one can see why Farage thinks it worth a go.
  • (3) The word slut can mean a women who is slatternly but also one who is sexually promiscuous.

Slatternliness


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being slatternly; slovenliness; untidiness.

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