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.
The narrative is inert and sloppy, as if the author had been writing half-asleep.
With the machine running, gradually add enough oil to achieve a sloppy paste consistency.
A system for handling sloppy input was also incorporated to make the game really playable with the analog stick.
Combine the dry ingredients with as few stirs as possible to give a wet, sloppy mixture. The Sun
She thought of Tony and how sloppy he dressed sometimes.
The existing indices are so sloppy as to be worse than nothing. DOLL'S EYES
The exegesis, far from being new, sloppy in concept, or un-researched, now has its own developing history and rigor.
No chubby sloppy americans in sweaty 'wife-beater' underwear. The mayor's next junket (Jack Bog's Blog)
It was regarded as sloppy and lazy painting. Times, Sunday Times
But I am tired and unable to refrain from the snarking here, because this was just sloppy and pathetic. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
Meticulous on the one hand, but unbelievably sloppy and careless on the other.
Combine the dry ingredients with as few stirs as possible to give a wet, sloppy mixture. The Sun
It was still a little sloppy. The Sun
Their jobs will be taken by sloppy, indifferent clock-watchers.
But my tool set for working on the car is a 384 piece box set and not a bag of multi-tools where parts of the screw driver are missing, the plier turns into a sloppy wire-cutter and what not! Mouse + phone? | Sync Blog
The mixture was ridiculously sloppy, so I added more flour and breadcrumbs and then tried to mould the mixture around the layer of mince.
They were slack, loose and sloppy. The Sun
I was in my sloppy clothes that I wear at home only.
We rejoiced together, embracing one another with sloppy wet hugs after races. Christianity Today
“Well, that's something of an auspicious start, but that's why they have the phrase auspicious start, because one often starts that way,” I said, trying to cover up my embarrassment for the sloppy turn. Wake Up, Sir!
The batter was a bit sloppy so I added some more flour.
I like to have my tears jerked as much as the next sloppy sentimentalist.
With time, however, a ski tip would begin to lose its curve and sag, especially when the skis were used in wet, sloppy snow.
In a review for New Humanist of two recent books written by political bloggers - Liberal Fascism by National Review Online blogger Jonah Goldberg, and The Liberal Defence of Murder by Lenin's Tomb author Richard Seymour - he finds that in the transition to the printed page all the faults of those with 'blogorrhea' are starkly revealed: sloppy research, cheap name-calling, historical immaturity, overstatement, distortion, factual errors and near-endless repetition. New Humanist Blog
Some photograph captions in Western media appear to have been sloppy. Times, Sunday Times
Firmly baste, too; none of your enormous floppysloppy basting stitches that look like someone left a skipping rope lying around.
It's quite a mysterious, sloppy dish, you can't really see what you are eating, you just have to trust the taste combination.
I hate sloppy romantic films.
The end sequences are especially sloppy flipping from one fight sequence to another with no real coherence.
It takes 50 or 100 rounds before you really start to improve, but after 200 rounds it's easy to get sloppy and careless.
And that one sloppy, dozy, cosy thing leads tragically to another. Murdoch could let the News of the World rise again
He went on to say he would be "darned" if US Bancorp were to become part of of the "collateral damage" from the government's "sloppy attempt at nationalizing the [banking] industry. US Bancorp Blasts TARP As Giant Bait And Switch On America - The Consumerist
We really need to cut out giving sloppy goals away. The Sun
But sadly the music of modern verses tends to make it far too sentimental and a bit sloppy in my opinion. Christianity Today
To this day, the mere smell of sloppy joes made Ben gag. Parents Behaving Badly
My boss criticized my sloppy personal appearance.
Sloppy jeans, baggy top, red and sore nose, black bags under my eyes and scabby skin all courtesy of the cold virus.
It was still a little sloppy. The Sun
was sloppy about everything but her physical appearance
The problem of sloppy writing has become increasingly noticeable over the years. Times, Sunday Times
There is no doubt that the language is changing, and rightly so, but sloppy sentence construction must be stopped. Times, Sunday Times
Although many British journalists of my acquaintance verge on the dissolute - sloppy drunks trying to cadge a free meal - Michael, an American who was shortly to become an English legend, outdid them all.
Ann was dressed in a sloppy brown sweater.
It's so unprofessional to have a sloppy list, so write another one, okay?
Against his fellow Mâlikîs, whom he casts as sloppy in their juristic thinking, al-Qarâfî insisted that these phrases had absolutely no legal effect whatsoever today. Sherman A. Jackson: Sharia in America: How Religious Laws Change
Sometimes, you think, we are becoming soft, far more ready to give way to sloppy self-indulgent emotionalism than our parents and grandparents were.
Attention to such matters has led to both sloppy filiopietistic triumphalism and much uninformed finger-pointing. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
We know we have to improve on that and stop giving these sloppy goals away. The Sun
I want your demise to occur in a sloppy sort of way that forces a closed casket funeral -- and the casket is the size of an Altoids tin because that's all it took to hold what the cops scraped off the walls. Yipes.
Mix it into the dry ingredients with as few stirs as possible to give a wet, sloppy consistency. The Sun
That's an ambitious enterprise and, regrettably, the work is let down from achieving such divine afflatus by sloppy editing and far too many solecisms.
At home I tend to wear big sloppy jumpers and jeans.
If you think it may get sloppy and peek out you can easily tack it to the shirt body on the front and bottom facing seam lines or into the ribbing seam if ribbing is left at the bottom.
She has a recurring dream, she confides, in which she is a sloppy and unprofessional actress.
Tacos and sloppy joes don't taste any different made with deer burger than they do with hamburger and venison is usually leaner. I just brought down a 5 point buck and my freezer is full of meat. I need some great venison recipes so it doesn't go to waste.
Any theatregoer, regardless of their political persuasion, should object to such a sloppy, selfregarding bit of propaganda masquerading as art. Times, Sunday Times
It is a sloppy piece of journalism which I am amused you allowed to appear on your front page.
With the consistence of sloppy polenta, grits are a taste worth acquiring.
This strikes me as pretty sloppy work when you are sending out invoices for thousands of pounds. Times, Sunday Times
Don't make the mixture too sloppy.
With this sloppy record keeping, loose (or non-existing) terms these two would be in audited in a flash. Sound Politics: Cantwell's Campaign Should Pay Its Debts
The scraps of American, Italian, and British clothing and flying gear we used were sloppy but practical.
This effort is too sloppy really to merit the term whitewash: the sceptical graffiti are still clearly visible through the transparent white coating. Signs of the Times
They were slack, loose and sloppy. The Sun
We have State Labor governments in panic mode over sloppy relationships with business interests whilst workers and battlers get slammed.
It was still a little sloppy. The Sun
Yet nothing yells galosh like sloppy weather, and this year's has been so sloppy that galosh visionaries believe April showers may finally be coming their way. The Time May Be Right for Galoshes to Make a Splash Again
We floundered through soft, sloppy peat and moss. Times, Sunday Times
But these new establishments and the consultants that come out of them are holding onto a tenet that says that not using a jigger is just sloppy bartending. Karl Kozel: Measure For Measure
A society run on love alone is decadent and sloppy.
He was becoming sloppy and careless - I think he was looking for an out.
She was pacing back and forth in the dense sloppy snow that was left over from the storm two weeks before.
She didn't recognize him in his sloppy everyday clothes.
As your belly gets bigger, resist the urge if you even have it to hide yourself away in anything sloppy or shlumpy. The Mommy Diet
A pork chop sandwich with chow-chow—a mustardy relish common in parts of the South—is juicy and sloppy $8.50. A Southern Shortlist
We are giving away too many sloppy goals. The Sun
Sketch was staring at it as well, in between bites of a sloppy peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
They miss days, do sloppy work, relapse into chemical dependency. Christianity Today
At first Mahmut is caring but he soon grows impatient with his sometimes slow-witted relative and berates him for his sloppy habits.
'Who was that?' asked my mother unsuspiciously, watching through the window as the fleeting back view of cropped light brown hair, loose jacket, rolled up jeans and too-big trainers made a fast sloppy shuffle out of sight. They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff
It's sludgy and frequently sloppy but that's the point.
Anchoring in Bressay Sound to the south of Lerwick, they have a habit of dragging anchor in heavy storms and failing to get their engines started due to sloppy maintenance.
I want to begin by apologizing for all of the grammatical errors, slapdash reasoning, and sloppy writing in my recent posts.
My boss criticized my sloppy personal appearance.
He's always been a sloppy writer.
They made the European Cup last eight, but were sloppy at home to Valencia and let in a soft goal in Spain.
This strikes me as pretty sloppy work when you are sending out invoices for thousands of pounds. Times, Sunday Times
Mix this wet mixture into the dry ingredients with as few stirs as possible to give a wet, sloppy mixture. Times, Sunday Times
She's always criticizing her husband for being sloppy.
The question is she still shaggable totty or would the thought of Derek's sloppy seconds put you off? Kate Garraway still fine totty or Dereks sloppy seconds?
Mix it into the dry ingredients with as few stirs as possible to give a wet, sloppy consistency. The Sun
He has to eat sloppy food and cannot open his mouth wide, to see if his jaw will heal without being wired.
But sadly the music of modern verses tends to make it far too sentimental and a bit sloppy in my opinion. Christianity Today
It was not their fault that the eulogy was given by a crass, vain, sloppy buffoon. Times, Sunday Times
The ending peters out inconclusively in a welter of playful/sloppy metafictional games.
I could hear the footsteps getting closer and louder but I insisted to myself that my sloppy clumpy food was far more interesting.
We have conceded two sloppy goals but we probably could have scored five. The Sun
Although Lonnie claimed to admire her so-called feistiness when it was directed at a sloppy repairman or a short-changing pizza delivery person, he wanted her to be as meek as a geisha girl when dealing with him. A Dollar Short
Putting has always been regarded as a weakness, not because he has a poor stroke but because he seemed a little sloppy. Times, Sunday Times
It certainly is sloppy, low-grade journalism.
This strikes me as pretty sloppy work when you are sending out invoices for thousands of pounds. Times, Sunday Times
Layer very wet, sloppy materials (fruit wastes, etc.) with absorbent ingredients such as sawdust or shredded dry leaves.
Don't send a resume and cover letter that has misspellings, poor grammar or looks sloppy and unprofessional.
He wore a black-hooded sloppy joe with white writing across the front, grey shirt, black tracksuit pants and white joggers.
a sloppy saucer
Given that McKinnon claims to be a victim of sloppy journalism, I thought it would be useful to go straight to the source: the text of his address.
He, they believe, was carefully positioned by network executives as an unwitting victim of sloppy reporting by a subordinate.
Further, the sloppy use of language leads to confusion, and it also leads to bad policy decisions, because by attacking what the label signifies, we miss the more fundamental issues. The Problem With Capitalism
Sloppy at "tradecraft," Ames left incriminating trash like typewriter ribbons from which FBI analysts could piece together messages to the KGB. Other moles: Now the CIA and KGB must try to compose a larger picture of the damage caused by Ames's betrayals. How Ames Fooled The Cia
After we scored we got a little bit sloppy. Times, Sunday Times
I know this must sound sloppy or romantic, but put yourself in my shoes, you would feel the same.
A crazy Kisser enjoys being sloppy and free.
We rejoiced together, embracing one another with sloppy wet hugs after races. Christianity Today
We're so fat these days that there was a period when we tried to convince ourselves that someone calling us "disgustingly sloppy fat" might be good, because "phat" and "fat" were homophones! This is why we're fat: Missing Jack LaLanne
They're right to worry: the system is haphazard and sloppy.
He's doing ads and talk shows and he's getting sloppy and lazy. The Sun
The first is concerned with the distribution of the strict and sloppy interpretations.
Just how sloppy, stupid, and mean spirited is the drone program management? The Volokh Conspiracy » Assassination, Self-Defense, and the Koh Speech
Who throws a birthday party for a bunch of twelve-year-olds, serves sloppy joes, and then takes the kids out back for a few rounds of boxing? Parents Behaving Badly
The problem of sloppy writing has become increasingly noticeable over the years. Times, Sunday Times
Putting has always been regarded as a weakness, not because he has a poor stroke but because he seemed a little sloppy. Times, Sunday Times
Reconstructing a protolanguage root that's unanalysable despite an etymology already available with a clear historical source is the kind of sloppy, unacademic nonsense I loathe with a passion. Indo-European (*)*ǵalak- 'milk'
They were slack, loose and sloppy. The Sun
Rohr cackled as he dug into the sloppy meat with fiendish glee.
She wanted to get the money and get you out the door, without recognising that maybe, just maybe, you were less likely to return if you had a sloppy sandwich with a thumbprint in the middle of it.
Kevin tried to intercede at one point but got his head covered with big wet sloppy tongue licks for his trouble.
The result is broken or stretched contracts, sloppy novels hammered out in a rush, or a sort or imaginative pedestrianism born of over analysis. Yes I'm that crazy old mountain man...
However, sloppy tackling gave the visitors their first chance to attack and they duly scored a well-worked try.
We floundered through soft, sloppy peat and moss. Times, Sunday Times
If you find the ganache is getting too sloppy, cover it closely, put it back into the fridge, wash your hands, dunk them in ice water, dry them completely, give it a half an hour, repeat the washing, dunking drying sequence and get back at it. Rolling, Rolling, Rolling
Sharp lawyers dress very sharp, and their shoes always shine, while sloppy lawyers dress accordingly and their shoes are usually in a mess as well.
The details suggested a mean streak, an exploitive nature, a sloppy greediness, none of which seemed especially pleasant, let alone presidential.
The batter was a bit sloppy so I added some more flour.
And production-wise, the album's a bit sloppy and unrehearsed, as if the band could only pay for one run-through per song.
Sadly, however, the table service is sloppy and the Guinness is undrinkable.
They were slack, loose and sloppy. The Sun
Her wavy brown hair was messy, tangled, and pulled into a sloppy ponytail at the nape of her neck.
Putting has always been regarded as a weakness, not because he has a poor stroke but because he seemed a little sloppy. Times, Sunday Times
Tracey, Stephen, Timothy and Kevin landed in the bottom, and although Stephen's bacon-wrapped Chilean seabass effort was universally panned (Waxman called it "inedible") and horribly executed, Tracey went home for her over-fenneled, sloppy, poorly-cooked italian sausage 'sliders' that Jonathan Waxman claimed his son could make, and that Colicchio said would be insulting to Italians, and therefore himself. Top Chef DC Finale: Who Will Be Named Top Chef?
Tabby cats -- the soft, fattish kind, without any manlike qualities, that seemed to be by far the greater proportion of all the men one saw about in buses and in the streets and met in business; tabby cats -- sloppy, old-womanish creatures. This Freedom
Lawson's workmanlike approach to the Hull game was typical of the whole team, who are making far fewer sloppy mistakes than earlier in the campaign.
The ending peters out inconclusively in a welter of playful / sloppy metafictional games.
Besher, himself an adept reinsman on the hunt field, likes Tom McCarthy's General Quarters as a "sentimental favorite," Friesan Fire as the sensible play over the sloppy track. Undefined
He has little patience for sloppy work from colleagues.
Impatient with attorneys for lenders trying to seize hundreds of homes, fed up with their sloppy paperwork and errant practices, Judge Harry Rapkin dismissed 61 foreclosure cases in that single day - a quarter of those awaiting his approval. It's speed vs. skepticism for Fla. judges facing avalanche of foreclosure cases
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The actress disillusioned her fans by her sloppy play.
It was down to the sloppy goals we conceded. The Sun
We rejoiced together, embracing one another with sloppy wet hugs after races. Christianity Today
This strikes me as pretty sloppy work when you are sending out invoices for thousands of pounds. Times, Sunday Times
If the love of God were as sloppy and sentimental and subjective as our own, we could never count on him to be consistent in anything.
Here is architecture, rather than sloppy sentimentality or crass commercialism.
This strikes me as pretty sloppy work when you are sending out invoices for thousands of pounds. Times, Sunday Times
Food and water fall every fourth hour in a sloppy mixture from the ceiling.
Dean Neuhaus had come here from London, and he managed to make our entire country inferior to his too—our grossly abundant restaurant meals, our bad-mannered children, our sloppy and distasteful use of the English language. The Six Rules of Maybe
Dark, grainy, jerky, and sloppy, with dated psychedelic camera effects, it struggles for coherency, except in its explicit statements about anti-establishment themes.
They were slack, loose and sloppy. The Sun
It was funny at first, but now a Kremlin critic with some actual moral standing has gotten caught up in the latest Russian honey trap, which has been baiting one opposition figure after another with hookers, coke, weed, dildoes and hidden cameras, or some sloppy combination of these, for the past two years at least. Simon Shuster: Katyagate: Russia's Hooker Trap Snags Another Kremlin Critic, and This Time it Hurts
We have to stop conceding sloppy, lazy goals. The Sun
The swagger was back and Swansea were guilty of fewer sloppy passes. Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately, though, the sequential changes are tad sloppy on the upshift and slightly jerky on the downshift.
We really need to cut out giving sloppy goals away. The Sun
The day after a party is certain to be a sloppy day; and as the street-door is constantly being opened and shut, a raw, rheumatical wind is ever in active operation. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841,
After we scored we got a little bit sloppy. Times, Sunday Times
I normally wear big sloppy shirts to disguise my figure, but I cannot go to the beach because it is so obvious that I have no top.
Buddhism may be diluted by sloppy New Age enthusiasms, and most non-Buddhist artists may revel in the narcissism, intellectual wool-gathering, conflict, and violence that the religion abhors.
She didn't recognize him in his sloppy everyday clothes.
So far no one has uncovered evidence that banks kicked nondelinquent borrowers out of their homes, despite robo-signing and other sloppy paperwork. A Real Robo-Signing Scandal
Her wavy brown hair was messy, tangled, and pulled into a sloppy ponytail at the nape of her neck.
The end result is an amazing 45 minutes of pure, adrenalized musical bliss - sloppy playing and all.
He covers issues like drug abuse and self-harm with considerable fluency and character and when he's not tackling world issues, sloppy commercial hip hop receives a shrewd and poetic put down.
It may be a five-star hotel but the staff are always chatting and being very sloppy. The Sun
He's doing ads and talk shows and he's getting sloppy and lazy. The Sun
At most he's guilty of modestly sloppy wording in the first draft of his initial piece about the memo a week ago, a mistake that he quickly corrected.
Spelling mistakes always look sloppy in a formal letter.
I eat my sloppy, foul tasting noodles reluctantly.
Golfing slacks and sloppy polo shirts might be fine for the links, but they won't cut it among his new playboy peer group.
He ripped my hand away, I turned my head and got a big sloppy drooly kiss on the cheek!!! My First Date
At home I tend to wear big sloppy jumpers and jeans.
I can hiss here, of course; this is the big sloppy Etch-A-Retch for the daily moods.
And 40 on the front sidepar 34wasnt really awful either, considering the four-putt, the unmentionably sloppy double bogey on five, and the ugly five iron on nine. The Italian Summer
Its factual jurisprudence is slapdash, sloppy, and, too often, supercilious.
Fiftyish, 350-pound art dealers in suits ‘eat’ huge banquet spreads, gorging themselves with the sloppy abandon of famished Vikings, only to discover the food is merely a hallucination.
At the same time he was a caustic critic of anything he thought sloppy or ill-prepared. Times, Sunday Times
Although it is a generalization, loose aggressive players typically maintain unorganized / sloppy stacks, while tight conservative players keep well organized/neat stacks.
We conceded some sloppy tries and find ourselves under pressure. Times, Sunday Times
Then he planted a big sloppy, snotty, wet kiss on my mouth and rubbed his nose back and forth on mine.
They were slack, loose and sloppy. The Sun
It's true that people get signed on the strength of some pretty ropey demos but you have to think about why you would want to expend the effort of being in a band and then showcase your sound in such a sloppy careless way.
Using the tilde on español but not the cedilla on français is sloppy. 2008 August 22 « One-Minute Book Reviews

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