Johnson dismissed a compliment-hunt by Boswell, who worried whether he had acquired slovenly habits.

At 54, he lives alone in a squalid Jerusalem apartment, eating badly, with dirty clothes and slovenly personal habits: "Not really living.

He will develop slovenly habits if he doesn't have the threat of another player beating him out of a job.

Being able to tell which is which is handy, because you'll know whether to blame the lab that made the print or your own slovenly habits.

Charlotte's slovenly habits and strange menagerie strongly indicate that she is capable of disobedience and possibly violence.

A body comes by slovenly habits in the city.

But Peters didn't go on to college, and developed slovenly habits like wearing a baseball cap wherever he went, which irritated Roth.

Like her brothers, she wore faded jeans and went barefoot, a slovenly habit, especially in women.

The first, he explained, succumbed to the birds' slovenly habits.

His instinct for turning up evidence of slovenly habits and concealed vices was uncanny.