sloppy
Collocations
5ADJ.
careless, good, pretty, tracked
VERB + SLOPPY
accused, am, doing, get, getting, isn't, sitting, submit
SLOPPY + NOUN
job, joe, kisser, mud, painter, someone's
PREP.
in, through
ADV.
really
Definitions
adj
Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
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).
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.
name
A surname.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
6The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
WiktionaryThe carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
WiktionaryAmong 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
WiktionaryHe said he dashed this proposal off in one sitting. It's pretty sloppy.
Tatoeba · #282854Whether it's national economics, family economics, or personal economics, it's not something where sloppy accounting is good enough.
Tatoeba · #327553This year's freshly inducted employees are, to a man, lacking in concentration, and their sloppy work leaves me speechless.
Tatoeba · #471859