[ US /ˈsɫɑpi/ ]
[ UK /slˈɒpi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (of soil) soft and watery
    swampy bayous
    a marshy coastline
    quaggy terrain
    muddy barnyard
    the ground was boggy under foot
    miry roads
    the sloughy edge of the pond
    wet mucky lowland
  2. not fitting closely; hanging loosely
    baggy trousers
    a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather
  3. wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material
    a sloppy saucer
    a sloppy floor
  4. excessively or abnormally emotional
  5. marked by great carelessness
    sloppy workmanship
    a most haphazard system of record keeping
    slipshod spelling
    slapdash work
  6. lacking neatness or order
    sloppy habits
    a sloppy room
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How To Use sloppy In A Sentence

  • Their passing was sloppy, possession was given away too easily and balls were either spilled or over carried in promising attacks.
  • As a result, instead of the clean visuals that typify the science fiction genre, we see lens flares, shaky handheld cameras, zooms, and sloppy rack focuses even in CGI shots.
  • No, y’all are using terms legal terms that have established meanings in haphazard and sloppy fashion. Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » 3/4
  • Mix this wet mixture into the dry ingredients with as few stirs as possible to give a wet, sloppy mixture. Times, Sunday Times
  • They, on the other hand, were at their old game of sloppy passing and giving away possession.
  • The swagger was back and Swansea were guilty of fewer sloppy passes. Times, Sunday Times
  • This has become a motif among net-critics, whose vanguard is Andrew Keen, who wrote a sloppy, intellectually dishonest book called The Cult of the Amateur that damns the Internet for much the same reasons (Clay Shirky wrote a great response to Keen). Boing Boing
  • Make it sloppy food for the first few days after the whelping.
  • Many sloppy councils don't bother to include this extra detail, which renders their tickets invalid. The Sun
  • And neither do you, thanks to sloppy reporting and slapdash conclusions.
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