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UK
/slˈɒpɪnəs/
]
[ US /ˈsɫɑpinəs/ ]
[ US /ˈsɫɑpinəs/ ]
NOUN
- a lack of order and tidiness; not cared for
- the quality of not being careful or taking pains
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the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water
the baseball game was canceled because of the wateriness of the outfield
the sloppiness of a rainy November day
the water's muddiness made it undrinkable - falsely emotional in a maudlin way
How To Use sloppiness In A Sentence
- Good God, that kind of sloppiness is astonishing, especially seeing as the errors are not due to the difficulty of the words being used. Five-typo feast of fail
- I told her in so many words that all this friendship of yours is nothing but a mutual pouring forth of sloppiness.
- Bar soap is discouraged, not only because of the inherent sloppiness of the soap dish, but also because some organisms survive on the soap surface.
- Just pure sloppiness and sentimental tosh!
- There is ready absorption of water into the surface during wet weather, with consequent loss of stability and sloppiness of the surface.
- At this very moment, exam markers are sharpening their red pencils to ring such sloppiness.
- The answer is misguided economic policies, mismanagement, poor maintenance, sloppiness, tribalism and corruption.
- The reasons for this sloppiness in rear-end design is attributable to a number of factors including cost cutting installing a valance as a cover-up would cost more. Exposed Car Underbellies
- It doesn't have to be Armani, but there is no excuse for sloppiness.
- Their clinical detachment also insulates them from their influences' anxiety-producing aspects: the anger, the druggy sloppiness, the overblown egos.
