Definition of 'sloppy'

Adjective

1. lacking neatness or order; "a sloppy room"; "sloppy habits"
2. wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material; "a sloppy floor"; "a sloppy saucer"
3. (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous"
      Synonyms: boggy marshy miry mucky muddy quaggy sloughy soggy squashy swampy waterlogged
4. not fitting closely; hanging loosely; "baggy trousers"; "a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather"
      Synonyms: baggy loose-fitting
5. excessively or abnormally emotional
      Synonyms: overemotional
6. marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"
      Synonyms: haphazard slapdash slipshod

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