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Sloppy

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Adjective

1. sloppy

lacking neatness or order

Example Sentences:
'a sloppy room'
'sloppy habits'

2. sloppy

wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material

Example Sentences:
'a sloppy floor'
'a sloppy saucer'

3. boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged

(of soil) soft and watery

Example Sentences:
'the ground was boggy under foot'
'a marshy coastline'
'miry roads'
'wet mucky lowland'
'muddy barnyard'
'quaggy terrain'
'the sloughy edge of the pond'
'swampy bayous'

4. baggy, loose-fitting, sloppy

not fitting closely; hanging loosely

Example Sentences:
'baggy trousers'
'a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather'

5. overemotional, sloppy

excessively or abnormally emotional

6. haphazard, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy

marked by great carelessness

Example Sentences:
'a most haphazard system of record keeping'
'slapdash work'
'slipshod spelling'
'sloppy workmanship'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Sloppy

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adjective -pier or -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

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Sloppy

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adjectiveWord forms: ˈsloppier or ˈsloppiest
1. 
consisting of or covered with slop; wet and splashy; muddy; slushy
2. 
splashed or spotted with liquids
3. 
a. 
very untidy; showing lack of care; slovenly or messy
b. 
careless; slipshod
4.  Informal
gushingly sentimental

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Sloppy

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adj. slop·pi·er, slop·pi·est
1. Marked by or given to a lack of neatness or order; untidy: a sloppy room; a sloppy roommate.
2. Showing or in the habit of using little care or attention: sloppy use of language; a sloppy researcher.
3. Informal Oversentimental; gushy: a sloppy love letter.
4. Of, resembling, or covered with slop; muddy or slushy: sloppy ground.
5. Watery and unappetizing: a sloppy stew.
6. Spotted or splashed with liquid.

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