mindmap root((邋遢)) slatternly stresses notions of slovenliness, unkemptness, and sordidness: a run-down ~ apartment. dowdy is likely to suggest a complete lack of taste resulting from a combination of the untidy, drab, and tasteless: an old hotel with an imposing but ~ appearance. frowsy may describe a lazy lack of neatness, order, and cleanliness: a ~ old office; or it may apply to a natural and not unwholesome disorder: a thicket ~ with underbrush; or it may suggest drab misery and squalor: tried her best to overcome the ~ circumstances under which she grew up. blowsy implies dishevelment or disorder: looked ~ and dissolute; to which is often added a notion of crudity or coarseness or grossness: songs carelessly belted out by a ~ singer.