Definitions for sloppy

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sloppy slop·py

Spelling: [slop-ee]

IPA: /ˈslɒp i/

Sloppy is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in sloppy (loppsy).

Definitions for sloppy

adjective

1. muddy, slushy, or very wet:
2. splashed or soiled with liquid.
3. careless; loose:
4. untidy; slovenly:
5. overly emotional; gushy:
6. (of food or drink) prepared or served in an unappetizing way.
7. (of clothes) loose-fitting; baggy:
8. (of the surface of a racetrack) wet from a recent or continuing heavy rain and containing puddles and mud still too thin and watery to be sticky.

Origin of sloppy

First recorded in 1700-10; slop¹ + -y¹

Examples for sloppy

Some of the stuff has been so shoddy and so sloppy that our soldiers are over there dying in the shower from electrocution.

There are two separate crises that Republicans (and sloppy liberals) are conflating for political reasons.

It was a rainy, windy October night, sloppy underfoot, dripping overhead.

He catalogues the sloppy flow of outside money and its failures to transform the country.

That was the word the sloppy copyist of yesteryear had wrongly transcribed.

I mean, it shouldn't be sloppy work; it shouldn't be bad procurement process.

The writing is vigorous and there is no sloppy sentimentality.

She told one girl her work was sloppy and made her do the flower over.

"That was a sloppy thing to do," he said to himself, and he flung the earth away from him.

The Chairman, the new book about disgraced former Florida Republican Party chairman Jim Greer, is a sloppy, ugly mess.