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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
Nearby Words:
sloakan
sloam
sloat
slobber
slobberer
slobbery
slock
slocken
slocking
sloe
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