sloppy
See also: Sloppy
English
[edit]Etymology
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Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈslɒ.pi/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈslɑ.pi/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒpi
- Hyphenation: slop‧py
- Homophone: Sloppy
Adjective
[edit]sloppy (comparative sloppier, superlative sloppiest)
- Composed of or covered in slop; very wet.
- The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
- Careless, messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:careless
- The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
- 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.
- (derogatory) Characteristic of or resembling AI slop.
- 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 Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- 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 Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian[2], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- The likes of Liv may be gone from Meta for now, but our online future seems to be getting sloppier and sloppier.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]very wet; covered in or composed of slop — see also drenched
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imprecise or loose
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Further reading
[edit]- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “sloppy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “sloppy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “sloppy”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “sloppy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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