What is another word for sluttish?

Pronunciation: [slˈʌtɪʃ] (IPA)

The word sluttish is often associated with negative connotations and is considered offensive by many people. Therefore, it is important to identify synonyms that can be used instead of sluttish. Some of the synonyms that can be used instead of sluttish include promiscuous, lewd, licentious, wanton, dissolute, debauched, and immoral. All of these words are used to describe behavior or actions that are considered morally unacceptable or socially unacceptable. However, it is important to note that the use of synonyms should be done with care and sensitivity, as some of these words can still be offensive to certain individuals.

What are the hypernyms for Sluttish?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for sluttish?

The word "sluttish" is often used to describe untidy or promiscuous behavior. However, there are many antonyms for this word that describe the opposite traits. Some of the antonyms for "sluttish" include neat, tidy, organized, chaste, pure, virtuous, and refined. These words imply a sense of orderliness, decency, and elegance. Neat and tidy suggest a clean and orderly appearance while chaste and pure suggest a person with strong moral values. Virtuous and refined describe someone who conducts themselves with class and grace. When choosing antonyms for "sluttish," consider the traits you want to highlight in your writing, and choose words that accurately convey the opposite meanings.

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Usage examples for Sluttish

It seemed to him that, in such an ocean of corruption, Force was a remedy and Fraud no sluttish handmaid.
"Machiavelli, Volume I The Art of War; and The Prince"
Niccolò Machiavelli
And was mightily pleased to see my house clean and in good condition, but something coming into my wife's head, and mine, to be done more about bringing the green bed into our chamber, which is handsomer than the red one, though not of the colour of our hangings, my wife forebore to make herself clean to-day, but continued in a sluttish condition till to-morrow.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke
Thence by water to the New Exchange, where bought a pair of shoe-strings, and so to Mr. Pierces, where invited, and there was Knepp and Mrs. Foster and here dined, but a poor, sluttish dinner, as usual, and so I could not be heartily merry at it: here saw her girl's picture, but it is mighty far short of her boy's, and not like her neither; but it makes Hales's picture of her boy appear a good picture.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke

Famous quotes with Sluttish

  • I can understand the ignorant masses loving to soak themselves in drink—oh, yes, it's very shocking that they should, of course—very shocking to us who live in cozy homes, with all the graces and pleasures of life around us, that the dwellers in damp cellars and windy attics should creep from their dens of misery into the warmth and glare of the public-house bar, and seek to float for a brief space away from their dull world upon a Lethe stream of gin. But think, before you hold up your hands in horror at their ill-living, what "life" for these wretched creatures really means. Picture the squalid misery of their brutish existence, dragged on from year to year in the narrow, noisome room where, huddled like vermin in sewers, they welter, and sicken, and sleep; where dirt-grimed children scream and fight and sluttish, shrill-voiced women cuff, and curse, and nag; where the street outside teems with roaring filth and the house around is a bedlam of riot and stench. Think what a sapless stick this fair flower of life must be to them, devoid of mind and soul. The horse in his stall scents the sweet hay and munches the ripe corn contentedly. The watch-dog in his kennel blinks at the grateful sun, dreams of a glorious chase over the dewy fields, and wakes with a yelp of gladness to greet a caressing hand. But the clod-like life of these human logs never knows one ray of light. From the hour when they crawl from their comfortless bed to the hour when they lounge back into it again they never live one moment of real life. Recreation, amusement, companionship, they know not the meaning of. Joy, sorrow, laughter, tears, love, friendship, longing, despair, are idle words to them. From the day when their baby eyes first look out upon their sordid world to the day when, with an oath, they close them forever and their bones are shoveled out of sight, they never warm to one touch of human sympathy, never thrill to a single thought, never start to a single hope. In the name of the God of mercy; let them pour the maddening liquor down their throats and feel for one brief moment that they live!
    Jerome K. Jerome
  • Before, he had fought against the money code, and yet he had clung to his wretched remnant of decency. But now it was precisely from decency that he wanted to escape. He wanted to go down, deep down, into some world where decency no longer mattered; to cut the strings of his self-respect, to submerge himself—to , as Rosemary had said. It was all bound up in his mind with the thought of being . He liked to think of the lost people, the under-ground people: tramps, beggars, criminals, prostitutes. It is a good world that they inhabit, down there in their frowzy kips and spikes. He liked to think that beneath the world of money there is that great sluttish underworld where failure and success have no meaning; a sort of kingdom of ghosts where all are equal. That was where he wished to be, down in the ghost-kingdom, ambition. It comforted him somehow to think of the smoke-dim slums of South London sprawling on and on, a huge graceless wilderness where you could lose yourself forever.
    George Orwell

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