as in sentimentality
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
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Recent Examples of sloppiness
That is just intolerable sloppiness.
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Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
The rotating door on offense led to some sloppiness, probably exacerbated by the four weeks of practice Stafford missed with his back injury.
—Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025
Jakob Marsee scored the tiebreaking run on an error and the Miami Marlins took advantage of sloppiness by the host New York Mets to earn a 7-4 win in the opener of a four-game series between the National League East rivals on Thursday.
—Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 2025
The rotating door on offense led to some sloppiness, probably exacerbated by the four weeks of practice Stafford missed with his back injury.
—Adam Grosbard, Oc Register, 7 Sep. 2025
Jakob Marsee scored the tiebreaking run on an error and the Miami Marlins took advantage of sloppiness by the host New York Mets to earn a 7-4 win in the opener of a four-game series between the National League East rivals on Thursday.
—Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sloppiness
Noun
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Raven is ever attentive to the imaging of the West as a kind of battleground, where surveillance (and the camera’s inexorable links to the military apparatus) tussles with sentimentality in a centuries-long project from which the national psyche cannot seem to unlatch.—
Anne Reeve,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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Walsh and Sherman both recognized Lupino’s superior intellect and resistance to unearned sentimentality.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
25 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The Academy historically goes for sentimentalism.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
4 Oct. 2025
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McBride is less interested in exploring another motivation for saving locks of hair: the particular sentimentalism that made people cherish the hair of loved ones, especially those who had died, or of honored forebears.—
Margaret Talbot,
New Yorker,
21 July 2025
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“Sloppiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sloppiness. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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