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English Dictionary: sloppy by the DICT Development Group
2 results for sloppy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sloppy
adj
  1. lacking neatness or order; "a sloppy room"; "sloppy habits"
  2. wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material; "a sloppy floor"; "a sloppy saucer"
  3. (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous"
    Synonym(s): boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged
  4. not fitting closely; hanging loosely; "baggy trousers"; "a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather"
    Synonym(s): baggy, loose-fitting, sloppy
  5. excessively or abnormally emotional
    Synonym(s): overemotional, sloppy
  6. marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"
    Synonym(s): haphazard, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sloppy \Slop"py\, a. [Compar. {Sloppier}; superl. {Sloppiest}.]
      [From {Slop}.]
      Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped
      over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.
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