sloppy English

Meaning sloppy meaning

What does sloppy mean?

Definitions in simple English

sloppy Adjective

— If something is sloppy, very wet and contains too much liquid. The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!

— If something is sloppy, it is messy; not neat, elegant, or careful. The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.

— If something is sloppy, it is not precise or loose. A sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit!

sloppy

— adjective lacking neatness or order a sloppy room sloppy habits

— adjective wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material a sloppy floor a sloppy saucer

— adjective (= overemotional) excessively or abnormally emotional

— adjective (= baggy, loose-fitting) not fitting closely; hanging loosely baggy trousers a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather

— adjective (= haphazard, slapdash, slipshod) marked by great carelessness a most haphazard system of record keeping slapdash work slipshod spelling sloppy workmanship

— adjective (= boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, swampy) (of soil) soft and watery the ground was boggy under foot a marshy coastline miry roads wet mucky lowland muddy barnyard quaggy terrain the sloughy edge of the pond swampy bayous

Synonyms sloppy synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as sloppy?

sloppy English » English

slovenly

careless

messy

untidy

slipshod

muddy

disorderly

wet

soggy

mucky

loose-fitting

loose

baggy

unkempt

soppy

slushy

sloughy

negligent

miry

lax

waterlogged

swampy

squashy

sluttish

sloppiness

slob

slapdash

slack

shabby

sentimental

scruffy

quaggy

overemotional

mussy

marshy

haphazard

grubby

frowzy

frowsy

faulty

disheveled

dirty

chaotic

carelessness

boggy

blowzy

worn out

wishy-washy

watery

washy

Topics sloppy topics

What do people use sloppy to talk about?

Universe, creation Water

Wet

• What words describe something that is wet?
  wet dank watery aqueous sludgy slush slushy sloppy sweaty

Work and occupation Work Method

Work poorly

• What words refer to working poorly?
  work poorly work slowly do a bad job mess up on the job slipshod sloppy

Examples sloppy examples

How do I use sloppy in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Tom is a sloppy painter.

That's a sloppy job.

Tom did a sloppy job.

We're getting sloppy.

Tom's work is sloppy.

Tom does sloppy work.

He's a sloppy kisser.

That's sloppy work.

Movie subtitles

Or Evan's a very sloppy eater.

You're doing a pretty sloppy job of it.

What sloppy!

Hasty work is sloppy work.

Sloppy Joe's? What's the name?

Make it sound as sloppy as you want to.

That was pretty sloppy, boys.

Nothing sloppy. Nothing weak.

Rather a sloppy job, I thought.

Redhead in a sloppy joe sweater.

You're terribly sloppy.

Comfortable and sloppy and, well, homey.

You didn't know I was gonna get old and fat and sloppy.

I think your carburetion is a little sloppy.

Sloppy. Sticky.

I got very sloppy.

Make it sound as sloppy as you want.

There's not going to be any slip-up. Nothing sloppy. Nothing weak.

They were out playing games, but they did a sloppy job.

He's tough, just what this sloppy outfit needs.

You're soft. You're sloppy.

That's a good boy. Can't meet the lady looking sloppy.

Say, you're looking kind of sick and sloppy.

The same sloppy approach that you've always had, George.

There's no time to get sloppy.

A dirty airplane makes for a sloppy pilot, and I'm not gonna have any sloppy pilots graduating from this here field!

Now, instead of having her straw stuck in a soda, it'll be stuck in a sloppy can of paint.

Sloppy Joe's?

There's not going to be any slip-up. Nothing sloppy.

Sure, it was a sloppy job, but I was scared, I tell ya!

I think your carburetion's a little sloppy.

Why, you soft-handed, sloppy.

Sloppy.

I've never seen such sloppy work.

Looks like this Steve is a pretty sloppy housekeeper.

News and current affairs

So, where Hiatt sees a press corps that was a little too cowardly about overseeing the Bush administration, Frankel sees a press corps where a sloppy and confusing process is nevertheless doing a reasonable job.

Bo made the prosecution look sloppy and incompetent.

In fact, however, they provide an invaluable check on sloppy and inefficient providers of public services.