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Sloppy

[slop-ee]

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adjective, -pi·er, -pi·est.

muddy, slushy, or very wet: The field was a sloppy mess after the rain.

splashed or soiled with liquid.

careless; loose: sloppy writing.

untidy; slovenly: sloppy clothes; a sloppy eater.

overly emotional; gushy: sloppy sentimentality.

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(of food or drink) prepared or served in an unappetizing way.

(of clothes) loose-fitting; baggy: a big, sloppy sweater.

(of the surface of a racetrack) wet from a recent or continuing heavy rain and containing puddles and mud still too thin and watery to be sticky.

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Origin:
1700–10; slop¹ + -y¹

Related forms

slop·pi·ly, adverb

slop·pi·ness, noun

Synonyms
2, 4. messy. 3. slipshod. 4. slatternly.

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Example Sentences

Ando had had a bad experience with sloppy execution.

Sucking at arithmetic is usually due to laziness or sloppy work.

So, while no one was looking, medical chroniclers grew sloppy.

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Ando had had a bad experience with sloppy execution.

Sucking at arithmetic is usually due to laziness or sloppy work.

So, while no one was looking, medical chroniclers grew sloppy.

Sloppy male kissers may have a method behind their messiness.

While sloppy drumming and sloppy thinking come from brain cells that are slightly out of synch.

But, she explains, there's a difference between a high-functioning workaholic versus a sloppy workaholic.

The brain uses two different checks to guard against sloppy copy, a new study finds.

It's not that they were teaching us to be sloppy scholars, either.

When they are blamed for this, the judges respond that police evidence-gathering is sloppy.

It fits loose enough that it's comfy, but not sloppy.

Another layer of distortion is added when these stories get picked up by sloppy or sensational science writers.

They appear sloppy and careless, but with a purpose.

Although these can occur with no help from technology, they are another by-product of sloppy word-processing.

Not to mention the sloppy investigators whose incompetence has to be covered up during the trial.

The nylon taslan fabric along the knuckles and fingers minimizes the water penetration from melting snow and sloppy snowballs.

Very sloppy reporting, terribly imprecise to the point of not making sense.

It's a sloppy process, prone to garbled words and missed phrases.

In my day, freshman orientation was a rather sloppy deal.

Meh, empirical studies in economics are a sloppy business, at best.

It is slightly loose fitting and light but doesn't look sloppy.

Round numbers are a sign of sloppy thinking that can be taken advantage of.

Adding insult to injury, the levels are excruciatingly long, with infrequent checkpoints and some truly sloppy jumping segments.

Defining the question in absolute terms does little other than identify the questioner as a sloppy thinker.

One way of viewing the crackdown on speculation is as a purgative that will force sloppy markets to clean up their act.

If your ankles are slightly weak and you have huge thighs for long sloppy treks, then these are your boots.

The wife was sloppy around the boy-taking him for dumb.

Among them: sloppy handling techniques, uncalibrated instruments, and poor quality control.

Either this is sloppy negotiation, or something is amiss and they don't want to promise anything in writing.

In other countries, that might be viewed as evidence of sloppy underwriting.

We're big, sloppy meat-creatures who haven't even taken a good census of the species of bacteria that live in our bodies.

Editors are so sloppy these days that the comments on these edited blogs are often better than the articles.

Problems range from sloppy paperwork to over-billing for services provided.

Reviewers will think that if you're sloppy about details in the proposal, you may be sloppy with your science.

It is tempting to point the finger at money-grubbing barristers and sloppy solicitors.

If you don't zip the coat all the way up it tends to hang to one side, a bit sloppy looking.

Such sloppy thinkers should not critique the writer here.

Pointing to genes is intellectually and scientifically sloppy.

Over time, a string of releases that are sloppy or show poor news judgment reflect badly upon the college.

The famously sloppy immigration service will be reformed.

All at once he grabs her and gives her a sloppy kiss on the cheek.

The unfortunate side effect is that a teacher now has a license to be a sloppy teacher.

Writing you can get away with being sloppy and your book doesn't crash.

Universities in general have been sloppy with their use and care of personal information.

Old hierarchies remained in place, as did a habit of sloppy diversification.

More sloppy science with their clearly biased agenda sticking out for everyone to see.

Small, sloppy directional button muddles the interface.

In addition, department heads who put together sloppy or biased files hear about it in no uncertain terms from the dean's office.

Of course the guy or girl with sloppy hair and jeans and a t-shirt isn't going to get the job.

We should not base our national policy on this sloppy science.

Yes, it can be done because a person is a sloppy note-taker.

The right, however, are also guilty of sloppy thinking.

Avent epitomizes blogger journalism in his sloppy approach to fact-checking and his puerile vanity about the e-book format.

Corruption, sloppy standards, a lack of decent staff and red tape are the main gripes.

The mere name conjures images of sloppy science, poor oversight of medicine and consumer betrayal.

In fact, much of the recent hand-wringing about widening inequality is based on sloppy thinking.

Yes, the publisher was sloppy about the actual authorship of these bonus plays.

It feels adolescent: ambitious but imprudent, creative but sloppy.

It may be this picture was intended for sloppy housewives to make them feel superior to the tidy monster in it.

Shock studies periodically expose and deplore sloppy habits.

Very sloppy execution, maybe you should have used neuroscience references instead.

Schön's that were judged by the panel to contain sloppy data but not to be on the level of research.

But the rhythm of service can be herky-jerky, the application of sauces and scallions can be sloppy and the grace notes are few.

But their arguments about the innate differences between men and women are sloppy and counterproductive.

Schustereit thinks the mistake is indicative of the sloppy work that data brokers.

Certain booth behavior looks sloppy and conveys that you're not interested in your customers.

Providing a quick answer to a mother's question is admirable, but sloppy reporting is not.

And no, you are not condemned to forage behind burger joint dumpsters for sloppy buckets of smelly grease to get around.

The stated aim is to weed out sloppy and bad research.

There's some sloppy economic thinking that goes into this article.

Some are dishonest and dumb and some are sloppy and dumb.

When things become too easy, they also end up becoming more sloppy.

At times the salutes were sloppy and a far cry from military standards.

It can be an unhill battle reminding students that sloppy grammar takes away from their credibility among other things.

Perhaps someone will find my sloppy code useful gravity_well_plotpy.

Come on, people--doing inferior and sloppy research in the humanities is not that hard.

That's a cheap way to denigrate an issue and it's sloppy thinking.

At the time, the process for vetting drugs was sloppy at best:.

Now, the attack on sloppy social science has my entire sympathy.

So to for business crashes, and sloppy budgeting is generally a finding in the autopsy.

By accepting sloppy seconds, they keep the tenure-track jobs from being posted in the first place.

The paperwork in advance of the trip was sloppy and late:.

Equating the two is misleading and intellectually sloppy.

He is a newspaper copy-editor by profession, and so spends his days cleaning up sloppy or hurried writing.

COLLAPSE

Collins

World English Dictionary

sloppy (ˈslɒpɪ)

—*adj* , -pier, -piest
1.	(esp of ground conditions, etc) wet; slushy
2.	informal careless; untidy
3.	informal mawkishly sentimental
4.	(of food or drink) watery and unappetizing
5.	splashed with slops
6.	(of clothes) loose; baggy

'sloppily

—*adv*

'sloppiness

—n

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
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Word Origin & History

sloppy

1727, "muddy," from slop (q.v.). Meaning "loose, ill-fitting" is first recorded 1825, influenced by slop "loose outer garment" (1376), which is probably from M.Du. slop. Hence, also, slop-shop (1723). Sloppy Joe was originally "loose-fitting sweater worn by girls" (1942); as

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a name for a kind of spiced hamburger, it is attested from 1961.

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