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sloppy - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'sloppy' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Sloppy [ superl.]
- Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.

Meaning of 'sloppy' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . sloppy [ s]
Meaning (1):
- not fitting closely; hanging loosely
Example in sentence:
  • a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather;
  • baggy trousers
Meaning (2):
- (of soil) soft and watery
Example in sentence:
  • a marshy coastline;
  • miry roads;
  • muddy barnyard;
  • quaggy terrain;
  • swampy bayous;
  • the ground was boggy under foot;
  • the sloughy edge of the pond;
  • wet mucky lowland
Meaning (3):
- marked by great carelessness
Example in sentence:
  • a most haphazard system of record keeping;
  • slapdash work;
  • slipshod spelling;
  • sloppy workmanship
Meaning (4):
- wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material
Example in sentence:
  • a sloppy floor;
  • a sloppy saucer
Meaning (5):
- lacking neatness or order
Example in sentence:
  • a sloppy room;
  • sloppy habits