Sloppy - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈslɑːpɪ|  American pronunciation of the word sloppy
Brit.  |ˈslɒpɪ|  British pronunciation of the word sloppy

adjective

- lacking neatness or order
a sloppy room
sloppy habits
- wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material
a sloppy floor
a sloppy saucer
- (of soil) soft and watery (syn: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged)
- not fitting closely; hanging loosely (syn: baggy)
- excessively or abnormally emotional
- marked by great carelessness (syn: haphazard, slapdash, slipshod)
sloppy workmanship

Extra examples

Your work has been very sloppy lately.

...a sloppy child who always seems to have spilled something on his clothes...

He did sloppy work.

His written reports are incredibly sloppy.

Ann was dressed in a sloppy brown sweater.

The film is a sloppy romance.

His boss criticized him for his sloppy work habits.

...the band's sloppy playing produced only catcalls from the crowd...

I couldn't decipher his sloppy handwriting.

They upbraided him for his sloppy work.

He's always been a sloppy writer.

The movie is a mess, as sloppy in concept as it is in execution.

Listen, you sloppy article, who was on guard from twelve to two last night?

Word forms

adjective
comparative: sloppier
superlative: sloppiest
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