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sloppy
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See also: Sloppy
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Adjective
sloppy (comparative sloppier, superlative sloppiest)
- Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
- The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
- Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
- The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
- 2024 February 23, Paul MacInnes, “‘Some of the sloppiest writing I’ve ever watched’: how True Detective’s creator turned on his own show”, in The Guardian:
- Among the key criticisms: the writing in the finale was “some of the sloppiest … I’ve ever watched”, while the show in general was a “hot mess of faux character archs [sic]” which made “repeated heavy-handed attempts” to show that “Man=Problem”. (Now that’s a tattoo-worthy phrase if ever there was one).
- 2025 January 8, Arwa Mahdawi, “AI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it?”, in The Guardian:
- The likes of Liv may be gone from Meta for now, but our online future seems to be getting sloppier and sloppier.
- Imprecise or loose.
- a sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit
- 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
- My Greek is not the tongue of Homer or Aeschylus but a sloppy ungrammatical sabir lacking Attic salt and tending to a saccharinity which sets my teeth on edge.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:careless
Derived terms
Translations
very wet; covered in or composed of slop
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messy; not neat, elegant, or careful
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imprecise or loose
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Further reading
- “sloppy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “sloppy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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