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单词 sloppy
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Definition of sloppy in English:

sloppy

adjectivesloppier, sloppiest ˈslɒpiˈslɑpi
  • 1Careless and unsystematic; excessively casual.

    马虎的;无条理的;凌乱的

    we gave away a goal through sloppy defending
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They're right to worry: the system is haphazard and sloppy.
    • Either way, it's entertaining, even though Blumenthal is sometimes sloppy with his facts.
    • It takes 50 or 100 rounds before you really start to improve, but after 200 rounds it's easy to get sloppy and careless.
    • It's true that people get signed on the strength of some pretty ropey demos but you have to think about why you would want to expend the effort of being in a band and then showcase your sound in such a sloppy careless way.
    • I want to begin by apologizing for all of the grammatical errors, slapdash reasoning, and sloppy writing in my recent posts.
    • And neither do you, thanks to sloppy reporting and slapdash conclusions.
    • I'll stick with my sloppy couldn't care-less style thank you very much.
    • It's so unprofessional to have a sloppy list, so write another one, okay?
    • Don't send a resume and cover letter that has misspellings, poor grammar or looks sloppy and unprofessional.
    • The group responsible for evaluation and safety insisted that the other group was too quick, careless and sloppy in their safety review procedures.
    • There are too many amateurs out there writing sloppy code.
    • The environment is gradually being ruined by sloppy and haphazard planning.
    • Then it uses sloppy arguments to defend their act, and they even repeat it.
    • The point here is to challenge the media's effort to turn Judge Jones into something he's not in order to defend a biased and sloppy ruling.
    • Meticulous on the one hand, but unbelievably sloppy and careless on the other.
    • Holding onto profits might lead to excessive executive compensation, sloppy management, and unproductive use of assets.
    • Sure, there are some plot issues and short-cuts that have to be avoided, but these are not the result of sloppy film-making or careless consideration for the audience.
    • She has a recurring dream, she confides, in which she is a sloppy and unprofessional actress.
    • There is no reason for the government to shape policies to protect companies that are inherently weak, or are sloppy and careless.
    • Despite what you may think, that kind of sloppy unprofessionalism doesn't add to the cutting edge breaking news image.
    Synonyms
    careless, slapdash, slipshod, lackadaisical, disorganized, haphazard, unmethodical, unsystematic, hit-or-miss, untidy, messy, thoughtless, inattentive, heedless, hasty, hurried
    thrown together, last-minute, cursory, perfunctory, negligent, neglectful, remiss, lax, slack, slovenly
    amateurish, unprofessional
    informal shambolic, all over the place, slap-happy
    British informal all over the shop
  • 2(of a garment) casual and loose-fitting.

    (衣服)不合身的,肥大的

    she wore a sloppy sweater and jeans

    穿着肥大的套衫和牛仔裤。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Yesterday was the first time I've ever seen Kris wear shorts and a tank top, because he usually just isn't that sloppy.
    • I just bought a pair of permanent press pants and after the first wash they already look sloppy.
    • They pull it all together, like a great belt does a sloppy dress.
    • She had it back in a sloppy ponytail and was in her pajamas.
    • Also, make sure your jacket is well-adjusted because a badly tailored jacket will make you look chunky and sloppy.
    • She thought of Tony and how sloppy he dressed sometimes.
    • The scraps of American, Italian, and British clothing and flying gear we used were sloppy but practical.
    • Golfing slacks and sloppy polo shirts might be fine for the links, but they won't cut it among his new playboy peer group.
    • I was in my sloppy clothes that I wear at home only.
    • His mother always told him the jeans looked sloppy and that he should get rid of them, but never bothered doing it herself when the chance arose.
    • And while all this looked terrifically cool on the models on the catwalk, it is near impossible for normal women like us to wear this and not look sloppy.
    • Her long hair hung haphazardly in a sloppy braid and her tunic and leggings were dirty and torn.
    • Sharp lawyers dress very sharp, and their shoes always shine, while sloppy lawyers dress accordingly and their shoes are usually in a mess as well.
    • Her long hair was pulled back, and she wore a sloppy sweatshirt over clashing baggy sweatpants.
    • He had even managed to make the school uniform look sloppy.
    • Convoy leadership found some sloppy uniforms during a morning formation, resulting in push-ups for several troops.
    • I normally wear big sloppy shirts to disguise my figure, but I cannot go to the beach because it is so obvious that I have no top.
    • Save the extremely loose fitting shorts for boxers and basketball players; they lack sex appeal and look kind of sloppy altogether on a regular guy working out.
    • Leaving it hanging out makes you look really sloppy, especially when most shirts I buy are sized too big, thus making it look like I'm wearing a dress.
    • I shook my head in amusement and settled back to look at her, dressed in sloppy pajamas.
    Synonyms
    baggy, loose-fitting, loose, generously cut, not tight, roomy
    shapeless, sack-like, slack, oversized, ill-fitting, bagging
  • 3(of semi-fluid matter) containing too much liquid; watery.

    (半流体物质)水分过多的,稀湿的

    do not make the concrete too sloppy

    别把水泥和得太稀。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This point was well made when the woman next to me spilt some of her sloppy pasta sauce on to the floor and it almost hit me.
    • Rohr cackled as he dug into the sloppy meat with fiendish glee.
    • Food and water fall every fourth hour in a sloppy mixture from the ceiling.
    • She was pacing back and forth in the dense sloppy snow that was left over from the storm two weeks before.
    • The mixture was ridiculously sloppy, so I added more flour and breadcrumbs and then tried to mould the mixture around the layer of mince.
    • One moment demanding a sensitive physicality that eased her down the face of a wave in a sizzle of surf, and the next demanding brute strength to bludgeon her prow into a rising hillock of sloppy green water.
    • With the machine running, gradually add enough oil to achieve a sloppy paste consistency.
    • She said: ‘He knew what he wanted and it was not sloppy, soft food, but it was explained to him that he had been put on it for his own good.’
    • It's quite a mysterious, sloppy dish, you can't really see what you are eating, you just have to trust the taste combination.
    • A fellow journalist found his kettle full of a brown, sloppy substance.
    • Sketch was staring at it as well, in between bites of a sloppy peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
    • It's sludgy and frequently sloppy but that's the point.
    • Retreating to the mud slope, we set to work with the sloppy mud.
    • Whisk whites with sugar to form sloppy meringue
    • It's a real bonus as well that the sauce isn't too sweet, nor thick and sloppy like warm peanut butter - something you'll find in many joints.
    • Make it sloppy food for the first few days after the whelping.
    • But his barbecued pork chow is a great big sloppy yummy concoction.
    • The flaky filo crust gave way to sloppy mouthfuls of meat and dark gravy beneath.
    • He has to eat sloppy food and cannot open his mouth wide, to see if his jaw will heal without being wired.
    • She wanted to get the money and get you out the door, without recognising that maybe, just maybe, you were less likely to return if you had a sloppy sandwich with a thumbprint in the middle of it.
    Synonyms
    runny, watery, thin, liquid, semi-liquid, mushy, soupy
    wet, soggy, slushy, sludgy
    South African slap
    informal gloopy
  • 4informal (of literature or behaviour) weakly or foolishly sentimental.

    (文学,行为)感情脆弱的;无聊伤感的

    lovers of sloppy romance

    喜欢伤感浪漫故事的人。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I was going to write about a couple of more films tonight, but I'm fading fast and my prose is getting a little sloppy and sentimental.
    • A society run on love alone is decadent and sloppy.
    • Here is architecture, rather than sloppy sentimentality or crass commercialism.
    • But what we did have in common was a dislike of soppy, sloppy liberalism, the idea that there are no moral absolutes.
    • I like to have my tears jerked as much as the next sloppy sentimentalist.
    • If the love of God were as sloppy and sentimental and subjective as our own, we could never count on him to be consistent in anything.
    • In a culture as sloppy with sentiment and theologically illiterate as ours, it's a dangerous thing to spend much time speculating about.
    • I know this must sound sloppy or romantic, but put yourself in my shoes, you would feel the same.
    Synonyms
    sentimental, mawkish, over-sentimental, overemotional, cloying, sickly, saccharine, sugary, sugar-coated, syrupy
    romantic, hearts-and-flowers
    British twee
    informal slushy, mushy, weepy, tear-jerking, schmaltzy, cutesy, lovey-dovey, gooey, drippy, sloshy, soupy, treacly, cheesy, corny, icky, sick-making, toe-curling
    British informal soppy
    North American informal cornball, sappy, hokey, three-hanky
    trademark Mills-and-Boon

Derivatives

  • sloppily

  • adverb ˈslɒpɪli
    • He wears an oversized black hoodie and a sloppily tied ponytail.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But that is the point: too much quasi-Marxism has lost Marx's chief insight by reading Marx sloppily.
      • But it would be rude of you and you'd deserve those dirty looks if you blew your nose loudly and sloppily right next to someone.
      • Their answer seems to be a sloppily sewn-together quilt of stale stereotypes and untimely political references.
      • These sculptures are at once highly crafted and naturally formed, skillfully manipulated and sloppily organic.

Rhymes

choppy, copy, floppy, jalopy, moppy, poppy, soppy, stroppy

Definition of sloppy in US English:

sloppy

adjectiveˈsläpēˈslɑpi
  • 1Careless and unsystematic; excessively casual.

    马虎的;无条理的;凌乱的

    your speech has always been sloppy

    你的演讲总是缺乏条理。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Sure, there are some plot issues and short-cuts that have to be avoided, but these are not the result of sloppy film-making or careless consideration for the audience.
    • Meticulous on the one hand, but unbelievably sloppy and careless on the other.
    • It takes 50 or 100 rounds before you really start to improve, but after 200 rounds it's easy to get sloppy and careless.
    • Despite what you may think, that kind of sloppy unprofessionalism doesn't add to the cutting edge breaking news image.
    • They're right to worry: the system is haphazard and sloppy.
    • Don't send a resume and cover letter that has misspellings, poor grammar or looks sloppy and unprofessional.
    • It's true that people get signed on the strength of some pretty ropey demos but you have to think about why you would want to expend the effort of being in a band and then showcase your sound in such a sloppy careless way.
    • Holding onto profits might lead to excessive executive compensation, sloppy management, and unproductive use of assets.
    • Then it uses sloppy arguments to defend their act, and they even repeat it.
    • There is no reason for the government to shape policies to protect companies that are inherently weak, or are sloppy and careless.
    • The group responsible for evaluation and safety insisted that the other group was too quick, careless and sloppy in their safety review procedures.
    • The point here is to challenge the media's effort to turn Judge Jones into something he's not in order to defend a biased and sloppy ruling.
    • And neither do you, thanks to sloppy reporting and slapdash conclusions.
    • Either way, it's entertaining, even though Blumenthal is sometimes sloppy with his facts.
    • I'll stick with my sloppy couldn't care-less style thank you very much.
    • She has a recurring dream, she confides, in which she is a sloppy and unprofessional actress.
    • The environment is gradually being ruined by sloppy and haphazard planning.
    • I want to begin by apologizing for all of the grammatical errors, slapdash reasoning, and sloppy writing in my recent posts.
    • There are too many amateurs out there writing sloppy code.
    • It's so unprofessional to have a sloppy list, so write another one, okay?
    Synonyms
    careless, slapdash, slipshod, lackadaisical, disorganized, haphazard, unmethodical, unsystematic, hit-or-miss, untidy, messy, thoughtless, inattentive, heedless, hasty, hurried
  • 2(of a garment) casual and loose-fitting.

    (衣服)不合身的,肥大的

    she wore a sloppy sweater and jeans

    穿着肥大的套衫和牛仔裤。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Golfing slacks and sloppy polo shirts might be fine for the links, but they won't cut it among his new playboy peer group.
    • Convoy leadership found some sloppy uniforms during a morning formation, resulting in push-ups for several troops.
    • I normally wear big sloppy shirts to disguise my figure, but I cannot go to the beach because it is so obvious that I have no top.
    • Yesterday was the first time I've ever seen Kris wear shorts and a tank top, because he usually just isn't that sloppy.
    • Her long hair hung haphazardly in a sloppy braid and her tunic and leggings were dirty and torn.
    • His mother always told him the jeans looked sloppy and that he should get rid of them, but never bothered doing it herself when the chance arose.
    • They pull it all together, like a great belt does a sloppy dress.
    • Also, make sure your jacket is well-adjusted because a badly tailored jacket will make you look chunky and sloppy.
    • The scraps of American, Italian, and British clothing and flying gear we used were sloppy but practical.
    • He had even managed to make the school uniform look sloppy.
    • Sharp lawyers dress very sharp, and their shoes always shine, while sloppy lawyers dress accordingly and their shoes are usually in a mess as well.
    • I was in my sloppy clothes that I wear at home only.
    • Her long hair was pulled back, and she wore a sloppy sweatshirt over clashing baggy sweatpants.
    • Save the extremely loose fitting shorts for boxers and basketball players; they lack sex appeal and look kind of sloppy altogether on a regular guy working out.
    • And while all this looked terrifically cool on the models on the catwalk, it is near impossible for normal women like us to wear this and not look sloppy.
    • She had it back in a sloppy ponytail and was in her pajamas.
    • I shook my head in amusement and settled back to look at her, dressed in sloppy pajamas.
    • I just bought a pair of permanent press pants and after the first wash they already look sloppy.
    • Leaving it hanging out makes you look really sloppy, especially when most shirts I buy are sized too big, thus making it look like I'm wearing a dress.
    • She thought of Tony and how sloppy he dressed sometimes.
    Synonyms
    baggy, loose-fitting, loose, generously cut, not tight, roomy
  • 3(of semifluid matter) containing too much liquid; watery.

    (半流体物质)水分过多的,稀湿的

    do not make the concrete too sloppy

    别把水泥和得太稀。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • She wanted to get the money and get you out the door, without recognising that maybe, just maybe, you were less likely to return if you had a sloppy sandwich with a thumbprint in the middle of it.
    • Retreating to the mud slope, we set to work with the sloppy mud.
    • It's sludgy and frequently sloppy but that's the point.
    • Make it sloppy food for the first few days after the whelping.
    • A fellow journalist found his kettle full of a brown, sloppy substance.
    • But his barbecued pork chow is a great big sloppy yummy concoction.
    • Whisk whites with sugar to form sloppy meringue
    • The flaky filo crust gave way to sloppy mouthfuls of meat and dark gravy beneath.
    • Rohr cackled as he dug into the sloppy meat with fiendish glee.
    • The mixture was ridiculously sloppy, so I added more flour and breadcrumbs and then tried to mould the mixture around the layer of mince.
    • She said: ‘He knew what he wanted and it was not sloppy, soft food, but it was explained to him that he had been put on it for his own good.’
    • Food and water fall every fourth hour in a sloppy mixture from the ceiling.
    • He has to eat sloppy food and cannot open his mouth wide, to see if his jaw will heal without being wired.
    • This point was well made when the woman next to me spilt some of her sloppy pasta sauce on to the floor and it almost hit me.
    • Sketch was staring at it as well, in between bites of a sloppy peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
    • With the machine running, gradually add enough oil to achieve a sloppy paste consistency.
    • It's quite a mysterious, sloppy dish, you can't really see what you are eating, you just have to trust the taste combination.
    • She was pacing back and forth in the dense sloppy snow that was left over from the storm two weeks before.
    • One moment demanding a sensitive physicality that eased her down the face of a wave in a sizzle of surf, and the next demanding brute strength to bludgeon her prow into a rising hillock of sloppy green water.
    • It's a real bonus as well that the sauce isn't too sweet, nor thick and sloppy like warm peanut butter - something you'll find in many joints.
    Synonyms
    runny, watery, thin, liquid, semi-liquid, mushy, soupy
  • 4informal (of literature or behavior) weakly or foolishly sentimental.

    (文学,行为)感情脆弱的;无聊伤感的

    lovers of sloppy romance

    喜欢伤感浪漫故事的人。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I like to have my tears jerked as much as the next sloppy sentimentalist.
    • Here is architecture, rather than sloppy sentimentality or crass commercialism.
    • In a culture as sloppy with sentiment and theologically illiterate as ours, it's a dangerous thing to spend much time speculating about.
    • If the love of God were as sloppy and sentimental and subjective as our own, we could never count on him to be consistent in anything.
    • But what we did have in common was a dislike of soppy, sloppy liberalism, the idea that there are no moral absolutes.
    • I was going to write about a couple of more films tonight, but I'm fading fast and my prose is getting a little sloppy and sentimental.
    • A society run on love alone is decadent and sloppy.
    • I know this must sound sloppy or romantic, but put yourself in my shoes, you would feel the same.
    Synonyms
    sentimental, mawkish, over-sentimental, overemotional, cloying, sickly, saccharine, sugary, sugar-coated, syrupy
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