sloppery

noun 5adj 1adv 1

Definitions

adj

1

Slippery and messy.

The roads will be a bit sloppery, but Dobbin isn't too old to splash through them at a rattling pace.

Thanks to the discipline of daily habit, my hands and jaws performed their accustomed tasks, but my mind was in a condition alternately comatose and chaotic, so much so that it was a matter of surprise to me when I found my eyes resting on the bones of my sole and the sloppery trail of a departed omelette.

adv

1

In a messy and poorly done manner; sloppily

The investigator was expected to determine whether the place was "run sloppery, was it a messy looking place or not ..." and also if the premises were reasonably safe.

noun

1

Messiness.

And clearly the sailor suit could not trace its true home to a country like ours, which goes in for a widespread concept of uniform usage best described as "sloppery."

She abandoned the breakfast nook to its sloppery ten seconds later and accepted Horvil's multi request.

2

Careless imprecision.

Extremes, they say, are prone to meet ; thus, while Yachting is, in matter of practical usage and etiquette, the most ultra exclusive of all our National Sports — presto, it has become the machinery for retail sloppery in the hire of pleasure boats.

Were our modern instrumental sloppery conceivable, had they really grasped the most essential thing in Beethoven's tone-poems?

3

Lack of clear-headedness; fuzzy thinking.

This was just — Sloppery. The humbug of the woe-of-the-world business filled her with scorn.

Their most cherished ambition thereafter is a swift, exciting falling-in-love, a rapid courtship, a sackful of sentimental sloppery and then, then marriage.

4

Watery unappetizing food; gruel.

Stews out of all such piddling sloppery, Starvation gruel.

One day, it is in February, 1731, as I compute, they are sitting, her Sonsfeld and she, at their sad mess of so-called dinner, in their remote uppoer story of the Berlin Schloss, tramp of sentries the one thing audible; and were "looking mournfully at one another, with nothing to eat but a soup of salt and water, and a ragout of old bones full of hairs and slopperies [nothing else; that was its real quality, whatever fine name they might give it, says the vehement Princess], we heard a sharp tapping at the window; and started up in surprise, to see what it could be.

5

A low-class drinking establishment.

So he jess goes an' sends one on 'em off to England an' 'tother to the south on a two year mishonerry trip, 'an then he comes along 'an claps his cock-eyed sign on the shebang 'an now it's: “All Saints Holy Zion's Co-operative distillery'” or sloppery, wichever ye like.

I suppose Ulleeze is matronly now; but character does not change and were it not for the previously-acknowledged, deadly insidiousness of the stuff, I could not imagine her, even corpulent and with offspring in tow, as guzzling Nut Strawberry Perfection in a sloppery.

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