What does sloppy mean?
Definitions for sloppy
ˈslɒp islop·py
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word sloppy.
Princeton's WordNet
sloppyadjective
lacking neatness or order
"a sloppy room"; "sloppy habits"
sloppyadjective
wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material
"a sloppy floor"; "a sloppy saucer"
boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterloggedadjective
(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"
baggy, loose-fitting, sloppyadjective
not fitting closely; hanging loosely
"baggy trousers"; "a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather"
overemotional, sloppyadjective
excessively or abnormally emotional
haphazard, slapdash, slipshod, sloppyadjective
marked by great carelessness
"a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"
Wiktionary
sloppyadjective
Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
sloppyadjective
Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
sloppyadjective
Imprecise or loose.
A sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit!
Etymology: From slop, + -y suffix.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Sloppyadjective
Miry and wet: perhaps rather slabby. See Slab.
Etymology: from slop.
Webster Dictionary
Sloppy
wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road
Etymology: [From Slop.]
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
SLOPPY
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Sloppy is ranked #118853 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Sloppy surname appeared 146 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Sloppy.
96.5% or 141 total occurrences were White.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of sloppy in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of sloppy in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of sloppy in a Sentence
The market is on a pause mode till we get some direction from the Fed, there is some amount of bargain hunting too as investors are price sensitive and we're going to see some sloppy trading today, because there is no major economic data or news.
I don't think they fully considered the ramifications of the language they proposed. It's pretty sloppy.
Two points dropped I feel. The chances we had, I do n’t think it’s acceptable to come away with a point... I ’m sure the lads will be disappointed, at times we were too slow. Second half we were sloppy and gave the ball away. We created the chances and failed to score again and it cost us two points.
I think it's going to be very earnings-driven, it's a sloppy market because it's summer time. But yes, people will be focusing on some of the bigger names to see how they perform.
The Kentuky( sic) Derby decision was not a good one, it was a rough and tumble race on a wet and sloppy track, actually, a beautiful thing to watch. Only in these days of political correctness could such an overturn occur. The best horse did NOT win the Kentucky Derby - not even close !
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- недоизкусуренBulgarian
- schlampigGerman
- desprolijoSpanish
- huolimaton, epätarkka, vetelä, väljä, vetinenFinnish
- négligéFrench
- hanyag, felületesHungarian
- cerobohIndonesian
- ずさん, ぐちゃぐちゃ, だらしないJapanese
- kūrarirari, pakirara, hakuhakutai, hakirara, hakuraraMāori
- slordigDutch
- niechlujnyPolish
- desleixadoPortuguese
- неаккура́тный, неря́шливый, небре́жный, мо́крый, свобо́дный, сля́котныйRussian
- недбалийUkrainian
- luộm thuộmVietnamese
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