Slovenlily

It was equally notorious (continues the Colonel) that some of them, when too idle to hoe and properly prepare their ground for seed, have carelessly thrown the grain over the old stubble, chipped it in, as they termed it, going lightly over the ground with a hoe, and barely covering the seed: yet, with no greater assistance than this, the lands thus slovenlily prepared have been known to produce abundant crops.

This new edition of the Utopia, may be spoken of with confidence as possessing those necessary essentials which are too often omitted from negligence, or slovenlily got rid of by probability and surmise.

The arrangement of drapery is a test of the taste, which is very rarely favourable to the artist. They are either rendered ostentatiously prominent or slovenlily immaterial, as the painter may happen or not to possess skill in their delineation; […]

Turner seems to paint slovenlily—daubing, as one would say; […] The drapery is very slovenlily indicated, and the hands would befit one of the Byron Beauties—a singular defect to find in a work of Haydon’s.

It is left, and must be left to servants, and they can be but under a very indifferent control, and, therefore, very slovenlily perform their duties.

The nest is loosely and rather slovenlily constructed of coarse dry grasses and stalks externally, lined sometimes with fine grass,—sometimes with fine roots.

[…] in an anteroom were slovenlily scattered the head, arms, and legs, and all the disjecta membra, of another Nubian.

As a popular historical sketch, this part of the work has a value; but it is slovenlily written, and disgracefully printed.