sloppier; sloppiest
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: disagreeably effusive
sloppy sentimentalism
sloppiness
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Examples of sloppy in a Sentence
Your work has been very sloppy lately.
a sloppy child who always seems to have spilled something on his clothes
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Crystal Skull is easily Spielberg’s laziest, sloppiest work — even the action sequences seem phoned-in — and it’s filled with unforgivable howlers: Shia LaBeouf’s limp attempt at being a bad boy, Cate Blanchett’s hammy villain, the goddamn fridge scene.
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Tim Grierson, Vulture, 20 June 2025
The Cardinals took full advantage of the sloppy inning, scoring five runs on the way to clobbering the Sox 12-2 in front of 16,974 at Rate Field.
—Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2025
And then that was another incident of the day that was really just sloppy.
—Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025
Her defense team has suggested she was framed for the crime by sloppy and biased investigators.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 16 June 2025
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Tim Grierson, Vulture, 20 June 2025
The Cardinals took full advantage of the sloppy inning, scoring five runs on the way to clobbering the Sox 12-2 in front of 16,974 at Rate Field.
—Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2025
And then that was another incident of the day that was really just sloppy.
—Saajan Jogia, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025
Her defense team has suggested she was framed for the crime by sloppy and biased investigators.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 16 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for sloppy
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“Sloppy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sloppy. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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