sloppy
adjectivecommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈslɒ.pi//
- United States//ˈslɑ.pi//
Composed of or covered in slop; very wet.
adjective
- 1
Composed of or covered in slop; very wet.
The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
- 2
Careless, 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
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.
- 4
Characteristic of or resembling AI slop.
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).
The likes of Liv may be gone from Meta for now, but our online future seems to be getting sloppier and sloppier.
Etymology
Etymology tree Old English *sloppe Middle English *sloppe? English slop Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Germanic *-gaz Proto-West Germanic *-g Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English sloppy From slop + -y.
Forms
- comparative
- sloppier
- superlative
- sloppiest
sloppy · Composed of or covered in slop; very wet.
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