They maintained that it resembled the fat servant-girl with a long neck, who a short time ago had been dismissed on account of her slatternliness, and they called it, after her, "Black Susy."
"Dame Care"
Hermann Sudermann
Those children, not through poverty-M'Swat made a boast of his substantial banking account-but on account of ignorance and slatternliness, were the dirtiest urchins I have ever seen, and were so ragged that those parts of them which should have been covered were exposed to view.
"My Brilliant Career"
Miles Franklin
In the other chair sat a young woman with fine dark eyes and glossy black hair, whose appearance would have been prepossessing had it not been spoiled by her slatternliness and cheap finery.
"Prescott of Saskatchewan"
Harold Bindloss