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Sloppy   /slˈɑpi/   Listen
Sloppy

adjective
(compar. sloppier; superl. sloppiest)
1.
Lacking neatness or order.  "Sloppy habits"
2.
Wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material.  "A sloppy saucer"
3.
(of soil) soft and watery.  Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged.  "A marshy coastline" , "Miry roads" , "Wet mucky lowland" , "Muddy barnyard" , "Quaggy terrain" , "The sloughy edge of the pond" , "Swampy bayous"
4.
Not fitting closely; hanging loosely.  Synonyms: baggy, loose-fitting.  "A loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather"
5.
Excessively or abnormally emotional.  Synonym: overemotional.
6.
Marked by great carelessness.  Synonyms: haphazard, slapdash, slipshod.  "Slapdash work" , "Slipshod spelling" , "Sloppy workmanship"



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"Sloppy" Quotes from Famous Books



... particular about her looks. I'm a sloppy hound. Used to be snappier about my clothes when I was in high school. Getting lazy—too much like Mac. Think of me sleeping ...
— Free Air • Sinclair Lewis
... 'em, is Harold to wear 'em shoes again? There's holes through and through of 'em, and it's most desp'rate sloppy ...
— How It All Came Round • L. T. Meade
... ditches: it seems anxious rather than otherwise to get itself into a mess; scrambling through the dripping hedges; swarming over tarry fence and slimy paling. On, on it pants—through Bishop's Wood, by tangled Churchyard Bottom, where now the railway shrieks; down sloppy lanes, bordering Muswell Hill, where now stand rows of jerry-built, prim villas. At intervals it stops an instant to dab its eyes with its dingy little rag of a handkerchief, to rearrange the bundle under its arm, its chief anxiety to keep well out of sight of chance wanderers, ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... all decided that it was too late to search any longer, I was provided with a mackintosh, and determined to make my way over to Petit Moncque Farm where the 3rd Infantry Brigade Headquarters were. It was a long walk and the roads were sloppy. The path I took led through a field of Indian corn. This, though not ripe and not cooked, would remind me of Canada, so with my search-light I hunted for two or three of the hardest ears, and then, fortified with these, made my ...
— The Great War As I Saw It • Frederick George Scott
... sloppy, slush-filled courtyard below two untidy women were engaged in coarse vituperation that shortly led to blows. The window next to mine was quickly raised, and I drew back to escape being included in the category of curious spectators to this disgraceful scene—but ...
— The Long Day - The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself • Dorothy Richardson


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