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Synonyms for sloppy

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Synonyms for sloppy

marked by an absence of cleanliness and order

indifferent to correctness, accuracy, or neatness

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Synonyms for sloppy

lacking neatness or order

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wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material

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not fitting closely

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excessively or abnormally emotional

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marked by great carelessness

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"We started the second half sloppily once more and conceded a poor goal.
Connor continued: "From there you want to get through to half-time at 1-0 but we gave the ball away sloppily and gave another goal away from having been in possession.
that a sighted person would have painted, so sloppily,
Some PM you can neglect or do sloppily and get away with it.
Huddersfield got the ball rolling when Swindon sloppily dealt with a Jim Goodwin corner and Dickinson prodded home his fifth of the season.
It was handled a little bit sloppily, not from Ollie, but the people who were there, and I have since spoken to Ollie and we get on very well, so it is not an issue.
Meanwhile, her best friend has fallen sloppily in love with a guy they used to make fun of, but who now turns out to be a chef, a fact that endears him to her friend even more, to Frannie's consternation and confusion.
Theodor Adorno once wrote that in a false world all pleasure is false; the pleasure in Rae's painting is false in this sense--cosmetically pleasing rather than emotionally prickly, sloppily beautiful rather than eloquently harmonious.
No one likes to deal with several pages of sloppily folded information that barely fits into a letter-sized envelope.
Less convincing were Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite (indelicate and scrappily rushed in places), an unbalanced and sloppily conceived busk around the Star Wars theme, and the various solo items.
But once the game moved away from the line-out, Whitland half-backs Andrew Jenkins and Aled Davies combined so sloppily that little advantage accrued.
He said the indoor pool had been sloppily constructed and poorly maintained.
At a time in their lives where their tendency is to rush and get things done as quickly and as simply (and sometimes sloppily) as possible, this activity has an almost therapeutic and calming effect.
The mud was sloppily thick and would suck your shoes off in one second flat.