Sloppy means "untidy" or "messy." If your bedroom has clothes all over the floor, it's sloppy. And, if you end up with food all over your shirt every time you eat something, you're sloppy.
Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy;
Adjective S.
marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"
Adjective S.
lacking neatness or order; "a sloppy room"; "sloppy habits"
superl.
Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something
slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.
Sloppy
Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy;
Usage Examples
My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.
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Other Usage ExamplesI was never sloppy with other people's money. Only my own. Because I figure, well, you can be.
Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.
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