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sloppy

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English

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Etymology

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From slop +‎ -y.

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sloppy (comparative sloppier, superlative sloppiest)

  1. Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
    The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
  2. Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
    The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
    • 2024 February 23, Paul MacInnes, “‘Some of the sloppiest writing I’ve ever watched’: how True Detective’s creator turned on his own show”, in The Guardian[1]:
      Among the key criticisms: the writing in the finale was “some of the sloppiest … I’ve ever watched”, while the show in general was a “hot mess of faux character archs [sic]” which made “repeated heavy-handed attempts” to show that “Man=Problem”. (Now that’s a tattoo-worthy phrase if ever there was one).
    • 2025 January 8, Arwa Mahdawi, “AI-generated ‘slop’ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it?”, in The Guardian[2]:
      The likes of Liv may be gone from Meta for now, but our online future seems to be getting sloppier and sloppier.
  3. Imprecise or loose.
    a sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit
    • 1985, Anthony Burgess, Kingdom of the Wicked:
      My Greek is not the tongue of Homer or Aeschylus but a sloppy ungrammatical sabir lacking Attic salt and tending to a saccharinity which sets my teeth on edge.

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