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sloppy in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. not fitting closely; hanging loosely
    "baggy trousers"; "a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather"
    baggy  loose-fitting  sloppy 
  2. (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"
    boggy  marshy  miry  mucky  muddy  quaggy  sloppy  sloughy  soggy  squashy  swampy  waterlogged 
  3. marked by great carelessness
    "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"
    haphazard  slapdash  slipshod  sloppy 
  4. excessively or abnormally emotional
    overemotional  sloppy 
  5. lacking neatness or order
    "a sloppy room"; "sloppy habits"
    sloppy 
  6. wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material
    "a sloppy floor"; "a sloppy saucer"
    sloppy 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University