adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a sloppy kiss (= a kiss with rather wet lips )
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Her little boy gave her a sloppy kiss on the cheek.
sloppy joe
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fashionable/stylish/sloppy etc dresser
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a sloppy investigation
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a sloppy old sweater
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As a student, he was brilliant but sloppy .
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Ben has very sloppy handwriting.
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He gave me a sloppy kiss on the cheek.
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How can you expect an 'A' in this class when you turn in an essay as sloppy as this?
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The carpenter I hired did such a sloppy job that I finally had to fix the roof myself.
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The company's failure was blamed on sloppy management.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As is clear from the above, Giddens's querying of Freud is more than a pedantic concentration on sloppy terminology.
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But he can be sloppy about detail.
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He talked about sloppy packaging that could have contaminated evidence.
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It was sloppy practice, I told the crew.
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Remember that big sloppy jumper you knitted me when I was in the sixth form - that maroon one?
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The first two Blackburn goals were very sloppy and I think Newsome was to blame.
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The text is disfigured by irritating errors and sloppy proofreading.
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This application was very poorly written-and is typical of the sloppy applications submitted by your competitors.