“The room in fact was as depressing from its slatternliness as from its atmosphere of erudition.”

“Some evil genius, it might seem, was labouring to harmonise all things into an equal slatternliness.”

“They have evidently chosen their clothes with great care, for such gaudy slatternliness is not natural.”

“Phoebe and Audrey were trapped within stereotypes of the flouncing young miss and the buxom slattern respectively.”

“Is it the slattern who generates offspring solely for the sake of the allotment they command?”

“So one might become, for example, an alcoholic, violent, or an hysteric, or a slattern or a bully, if that is what a parent was like.”

“We saw a Polack dancing-hall, where the cook-girls were slatterns, but romantic slatterns.”