slobbish

adjective

as in sloppy
lacking neatness in dress or person the memoir portrays her father as a slobbish lout who was a constant embarrassment to her fastidious mother

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slobbish
  1. sloppy
  2. slovenly
  3. wrinkled
  4. shaggy
  5. unkempt
  6. messy
  7. untidy
Adjective
  • The Irish overcame a sloppy first half Sunday night to roll past Wisconsin 41-13 in Green Bay.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Early in the second half, Ipswich had a great chance to counter in a four-vs-four scenario, but Exequiel Palacios’ pass was sloppy and got easily cut out by Alexis Mac Allister.
    — Stuart James, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of sloppy
Adjective
  • And this is where the movie takes off from retro mythology to become its own slovenly mod thing.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Mar. 2026
  • To Washington, a beard made a man look unkempt and slovenly, masking the higher emotions that civility required.
    — Maurizio Valsania, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
Definition of slovenly
Adjective
  • Participants with wet but non-wrinkled fingers required significantly more force to maintain the same hold; their hands were working harder to do less.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Yellowing leaves can indicate overwatering, while wrinkled leaves can point to underwatering.
    — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 8 Feb. 2026
Definition of wrinkled
Adjective
  • Jesse Olstead, a twenty-nine-year-old with shaggy brown hair, kept stopping by the box to check the jump list.
    — M. R. O’Connor, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • There’s little tension or drive, just shaggy scenes about paranoia, trust and hope.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of shaggy
Adjective
  • Just across the sidewalk from the West Martello Tower, a Civil War-era fort where the Garden Club is housed, lies an unkempt field of grass, worn out by dehydration and footsteps.
    — Oliver Wu, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Beneath Lamb’s unkempt appearance, crude manners, noxious flatulence, and stinging remarks lies one of the sharpest minds in MI5 and a man fiercely protective of his brood of misfits.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of unkempt
Adjective
  • Football is a messy game with far too many variables for one statistic to ever fully grasp.
    — Austin Mock, New York Times, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The districts' policies are part of a messy patchwork of new laws and guidelines that have spread across the United States, leaving inconsistent rules state-by-state, or even district-by-district.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of messy
Adjective
  • Pruning isn’t required, but helps shape the plant, boost growth, and prevent leggy, untidy stems.
    — Heather Bien, The Spruce, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Bäck’s film prefers untidy personal drama to a tidy moral verdict.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of untidy
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