sloppy

[ slop-ee ]

/ ˈslɒp i /

See synonyms for: sloppy / sloppily / sloppiness on Thesaurus.com

adjective, slop·pi·er, slop·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.

(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.

SYNONYMS FOR sloppy

2, 4 messy.

3 slipshod.

4 slatternly.

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Origin of sloppy

First recorded in 1700–10; slop¹ + -y¹

OTHER WORDS FROM sloppy

slop·pi·ly, adverbslop·pi·ness, noun

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Example sentences from the Web for sloppy

“It was sloppy reporting and I had to pay for it and get up in front of the team to explain it,” Slauson said.
A divisive Jets reporter, accused of bullying, loses his place on the beat|Ben Strauss|December 11, 2020|Washington Post
During some storms, we receive a mixture of sloppy wet snow, ice, freezing rain and plain rain — changing back and forth throughout the day.
Ice storms: Inside wintertime’s dreaded, frozen mess|Jeffrey Halverson|December 2, 2020|Washington Post
That said, memorable ads don’t mean much if the right people aren’t seeing them, which leads us to points 2 and 3… You just can’t be sloppy with audience targeting in the B2B world.
CTV and B2B: 3 reasons why Connected TV advertising is primed for B2B|Sponsored Content: SteelHouse|October 12, 2020|Search Engine Land
Complex metal tracks like “Cafo” by Animals as Leaders can turn into a featureless sonic blob under sloppy bass performance, but the Nest Audio handled it better than I’d expect at this price.
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Instead of giving up, they sliced their flour tortillas into strips and put them in the soup anyway, turning them into “soft weird sloppy tortilla noodles.”
Celebrate the House Meal, the Go-To Dish for When There’s No One to Satisfy but Yourself|Jaya Saxena|September 30, 2020|Eater
From the title on, Cheney the author seems hopelessly, blindly, foolishly, sloppily in love with his subject.
Cheney's Love Letter to Himself|Paul Begala|September 7, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Many are sloppily melodramatic and the show seems thrown at you unedited.
The Art of 'Mr. Brainwash'|Anthony Haden-Guest|February 18, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Generally, Oswald's uniforms were clean but not neat; they were either unironed or sloppily ironed.
Warren Commission (8 of 26): Hearings Vol. VIII (of 15)|The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
In real life all might have happened just as it is set down, but real life is sloppily constructed.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 16, 1916|Various
Madison got a bottle and he and I got sloppily drunk, leaning on each other, singing innocently obscene songs of our youth.
Measure for a Loner|James Judson Harmon
He was a tall but sloppily built fellow, and after a straight one on the point of his chin I back-twisted him over the iron bed.
The Secrets of a Kuttite|Edward O. Mousley
The decks were dirty, and the sails, sloppily furled, were dirty likewise.
Keziah Coffin|Joseph C. Lincoln

British Dictionary definitions for sloppy

sloppy

/ (ˈslɒpɪ) /

adjective -pier or -piest

(esp of ground conditions, etc) wet; slushy

informal careless; untidy

informal mawkishly sentimental

(of food or drink) watery and unappetizing

splashed with slops

(of clothes) loose; baggy

Derived forms of sloppy

sloppily, adverbsloppiness, noun

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