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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

... are so limited—poor damp, sloppy things!" said Laura flippantly, as she brushed her stepmother's hair. "Do you suppose this nonsense will be all ...

— Helbeck of Bannisdale, Vol. I. • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... exhibition. It was, in fact, no more and no less interesting than if it had been their children. Most sorts of love were rather dull, to the spectator. Pamela and Frances were all right; decent people, not sloppy, not gushing, but fine and direct and keen, though rather boring when they began to talk to each other about some silly old thing that had happened in their last year at Oxford, or their first year, or on some reading party. ...

— Dangerous Ages • Rose Macaulay

... once more, leant back, and looked out of the carriage window at the street all sloppy with mud, and the poor people seeming so miserable in the rain which had been falling steadily ...

— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand

... young lady with two sloppy lovers at once! Of a young and beautiful girl whose first walk on the street with a baronet is a "temptation." And who turns nun at last and worships the Holy Virgin, in order to forget her nastiness! A Gallicized novelist ...

— The Journal of Arthur Stirling - "The Valley of the Shadow" • Upton Sinclair

... And he used to tell me stories about the drugs and things, sitting up there on the counter swinging his legs and pointing out this and that,—quinine, ipecac, opium, hasheesh,—all the silly patent medicines, every sloppy soothing syrup! Lordy! He knew 'em as though they were people! Where they come from! Where they're going to! Yarns about the tropics that would kink the hair along the nape of your neck! Jokes about your own town's ...

— The White Linen Nurse • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

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