sluttish
/ˈslʌtɪʃ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.36 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Like a slut; sexually promiscuous.
Example Sentences
- "His name was perhaps the least likely ever to have been young: it evoked for me the sunless complexion, unaired suiting, steel-rimmed glasses of a ledger clerk in a vanished age. Or had done so, before I found my beautiful, cocky, sluttish Arthur—an Arthur it was impossible to imagine old."
- "[…] an air of liberal, though sluttish, plenty, indicated the wealthy farmer."
- "[…] and it was dark and sluttish as all Burmese rooms are, though U Po Kyin had furnished it 'Ingaleik fashion' with a veneered sideboard and chairs […]""
- ""Check plates and cutlery for tell-tale signs of sluttish washing up […]""
Etymology
From Middle English scluttish, slottesche, slottysch, sluttissche, sluttissh; equivalent to slut + -ish.
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Inflected Forms
more sluttish (comparative)
most sluttish (superlative)