What's the difference between slatternly and sluttish?

Slatternly


Definition:

  • (a.) Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty.
  • (adv.) In a slatternly manner.

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.

Sluttish


Definition:

  • (a.) Like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness; disorderly; as, a sluttish woman.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The deft swerve around the words "dinner party" (these, being aspirational middle class, are presumably non-U in Maude-ian circles) and "meal" (also non-U, though I've no idea why; I'm only aware of this at all because a horrible old Etonian I once met ticked me off when it fell sluttishly from my lips).
  • (2) (Now, as far as the sluttish Welsh girl in me (about 65%) was aware, "lush" meant booze, copious amounts of which you ingest during a "sesh", but apparently the word is also sometimes used to market "bath shit" to women.)
  • (3) Meanwhile, in mainstream print (the Sunday Times), columnist Minette Marrin wrote: "There is no universal human right to dress and behave like a sluttish streetwalker touting for sex, without occasionally being taken for one."
  • (4) Though Farage’s party, scourge of breastfeeding and sluttish housewives, probably enjoys the superior claim to being Buchanan’s direct competitor in the field of concerted female cleansing.

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