slatternly adjective 1adverb 1forms 2 adjective1 •Appropriate to or characteristic of a slattern.Being a light-complexioned woman, she wore light clothes, as most blondes will, and appeared, in preference, in draggled sea-green, or slatternly sky-blue. — 1847 adverb1 •In the manner of a slattern. formsmore slatternly · most slatternly
