adjective
- Lacking neatness or order.
- usage: "a sloppy room"; "sloppy habits"
- Wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material.
- usage: "a sloppy floor"; "a sloppy saucer"
- Of soil. ( soft and watery)
- usage: "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"
- Not fitting closely; hanging loosely.
- usage: "baggy trousers"; "a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather"
- synonyms: baggy, loose-fitting
- Excessively or abnormally emotional.
- synonyms: overemotional
- Marked by great carelessness.
- usage: "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"
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