sloppy
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See also: Sloppy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]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.
- Imprecise or loose.
- a sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit
Synonyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:careless
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]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
[edit]- “sloppy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “sloppy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.