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US
/ˈsɫɑpi/
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[ UK /slˈɒpi/ ]
[ UK /slˈɒpi/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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(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 -
not fitting closely; hanging loosely
baggy trousers
a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather -
wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material
a sloppy saucer
a sloppy floor - excessively or abnormally emotional
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marked by great carelessness
sloppy workmanship
a most haphazard system of record keeping
slipshod spelling
slapdash work -
lacking neatness or order
sloppy habits
a sloppy room
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.
