sluttishness
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]sluttishness (plural sluttishnesses)
- The state or quality of being sluttish.
- c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii], page 198, column 1:
- Well, praiſed be the Gods, for thy foulneſſe; ſluttiſhneſſe may come heereafter.