sloppy

slop +‎ -y

• IPA^(key): /ˈslɒpi/

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• Rhymes: -ɒpi

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.

3. Imprecise or loose.

   a sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit

• See also Thesaurus:careless

• sloppiness
• sloppily
• sloppy drunk
• sloppy joe
• sloppy seconds

• sloppy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• sloppy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

• polyps