sloppy

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Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈslɒp.i/ (UK)
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/ˈslɒp.i/ (UK) · /ˈslɑ.pi/ (US)

Definition of sloppy

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
    “The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!”
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adj

  1. Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
    “The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!”
  2. Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
    “The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.”
    “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).”
    “The likes of Liv may be gone from Meta for now, but our online future seems to be getting sloppier and sloppier.”
  3. Imprecise or loose.
    “a sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit”
    “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.”
  4. Resembling or characteristic of AI slop.

name

  1. A surname.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From slop + -y.

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