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sloppiness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of sloppiness

the state or quality of having an excess of tender feelings (as of love, nostalgia, or compassion)

  • the tearful sloppiness that you find in so many country-and-western songs
Synonyms of sloppiness

bathos, gooeyness, lovey-doveyness, mawkishness, mush, mushiness, saccharinity, sappiness, sentimentalism, sentimentality, soppiness, syrup (also sirup)
Words Related to sloppiness

emotion

sentiment

corn, corniness, hokeyness (or hokiness), schmaltz (also schmalz)
Near Antonyms of sloppiness

cynicism, hardheadedness, hard-heartedness

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  1. Spanish Central: Translation of sloppiness

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