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[ adjective ] lacking neatness or order

Examples

"a sloppy room" "sloppy habits"

Used in print

(Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)

She was personally sloppy , and when she had colds would blow her nose in the same handkerchief all day and keep it , soaking wet , dangling from her waist , and when she gardened she would eat dinner with dirt on her calves .

Related terms

untidy

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[ adjective ] marked by great carelessness

Examples

"a most haphazard system of record keeping" "slapdash work" "slipshod spelling" "sloppy workmanship"

Related terms

careless

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