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Sloppy

adjective

(compar. sloppier; superl. sloppiest)

Lacking neatness or order. "Sloppy habits"

Wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material. "A sloppy saucer"

(of soil) soft and watery. Synonyms: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged. "A marshy coastline" , "Miry roads" , "Wet mucky lowland" , "Muddy barnyard" , "Quaggy terrain" , "The sloughy edge of the pond" , "Swampy bayous"

Not fitting closely; hanging loosely. Synonyms: baggy, loose-fitting. "A loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather"

Excessively or abnormally emotional. Synonym: overemotional.

Marked by great carelessness. Synonyms: haphazard, slapdash, slipshod. "Slapdash work" , "Slipshod spelling" , "Sloppy workmanship"

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"Sloppy" Quotes from Famous Books

... laboriously in his face, but all I could see was a vision of burning cottages; hook-and- ladder-men pulling down sheds and fences; ruined cisterns letting just enough water into door-yards and street-gutters to make sloppy walking; fire-engines standing idle and dropping cinders into their own puddles in a kind of shame for their little worth; here and there one furiously sucking at an exhausted well while its firemen stood with scorching faces holding the nozzles almost ...

— Strong Hearts • George W. Cable

... mail the night we arrived here, but couldn't see to read it till the next morning. So you are back in London—sloppy, muggy, February London! How you will miss the cold clear North and all the ice-fun; but you will be so busy finishing the book that surroundings won't matter much. It seemed quite home-like to see the familiar ...

— Olivia in India • O. Douglas

... with the porter's whistle, half a dozen cabs came racing for these excellent customers, and to the Trocadero they went. The acting manager passed them in. Mike, Sally, Marquis, and the drunkards lingered in the bar behind the auditorium, and brandies-and-sodas were supplied to them over a sloppy mahogany counter. A woman screamed on the stage in green silk, and between the heads of those standing in the entrance to the stalls, her open mouth and an arm in black ...

— Mike Fletcher - A Novel • George (George Augustus) Moore

... absolute; the silence was the silence of the unspoken places. But suddenly it was broken by a stamping in the covered part of the corral, and a man's voice saying, "Hip, there; whoa, you cayuse; get under your saddle! Sleepin' against a post all day, you sloppy-eye. Hip, ...

— The Cow Puncher • Robert J. C. Stead

... talking low-voiced together with hatbrims hiding shamed eyes, a type-true group of workers bearing a grievance. Not a man was absent—the Happy Family saw to that! Even Patsy, big and sloppy and bearing with him stale kitchen odors, limped stolidly in the rear beside Slim, who looked guilty as though he had ...

— The Flying U's Last Stand • B. M. Bower

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