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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SLOP'PY, a. Wet, as the ground; muddy; plashy.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
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" [syn: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged]
4: not fitting closely; hanging loosely; "baggy trousers"; "a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather" [syn: baggy, loose-fitting, sloppy]
5: excessively or abnormally emotional [syn: overemotional, sloppy]
6: marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship" [syn: haphazard, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (sloppier; -est) Date: 1672 1. a. wet so as to spatter easily ; slushy <a sloppy racetrack> b. wet or smeared with or as if with something slopped over 2. slovenly, careless <a sloppy dresser> <did sloppy work> 3. disagreeably effusive <sloppy sentimentalism> • sloppily adverb • sloppiness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (sloppier, sloppiest) 1 a (of the ground) wet with rain; full of puddles. b (of food etc.) watery and disagreeable. c (of a floor, table, etc.) wet with slops, having water etc. spilt on it. 2 unsystematic, careless, not thorough. 3 (of a garment) ill-fitting or untidy. 4 (of sentiment or talk) weakly emotional, maudlin. 5 colloq. (of the sea) choppy. Derivatives: sloppily adv. sloppiness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sloppy Slop"py, a. [Compar. Sloppier; superl. Sloppiest.] [From Slop.] Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(sloppier, sloppiest) 1. If you describe someone's work or activities as sloppy, you mean they have been done in a careless and lazy way. He has little patience for sloppy work from colleagues... ADJ [disapproval] 2. If you describe someone or something as sloppy, you mean that they are sentimental and romantic. It's ideal for people who like a sloppy movie. = slushy ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Plashy, splashy, muddy, slobbery, wet, slabby.

Moby Thesaurus

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