sloppy Meaning, Definition & Usage
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adjective satellite lacking neatness or order
- a sloppy room
- sloppy habits
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adjective satellite wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material
- a sloppy floor
- a sloppy saucer
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adjective satellite (of soil) soft and watery
mucky; swampy; soggy; boggy; quaggy; muddy; marshy; sloughy; miry; waterlogged; squashy.
- 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
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adjective satellite not fitting closely; hanging loosely
loose-fitting; baggy.
- baggy trousers
- a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather
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adjective satellite excessively or abnormally emotional
overemotional.
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adjective satellite marked by great carelessness
haphazard; slipshod; slapdash.
- a most haphazard system of record keeping
- slapdash work
- slipshod spelling
- sloppy workmanship
WordNet
Slop"py adjective
Etymology
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Definitions
Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a .sloppy place, walk, road