sloppy

Word family

1 CARELESSnot done carefully or thoroughly 马虎的，不仔细的，草率的 SYN careless

sloppy work

草率的工作

His written reports are incredibly sloppy.

他的书面报告写得极其马虎。

► see thesaurus at careless

2 LOOSEUNTIDYsloppy clothes are loose-fitting, untidy, or dirty 〔衣服〕宽松的，不整洁的，邋遢的

Ann was dressed in a sloppy brown sweater.

安穿了一件邋遢的棕色羊毛衫。

3 EMOTIONALexpressing feelings of love too strongly and in a silly way 痴情得可笑的，肉麻的 SYN slushy

The film is a sloppy romance.

这是一部肉麻的爱情片。

4 HARD#not solid enough 不够结实的，软塌塌的

sloppy jelly

软塌塌的果冻

—sloppily adverbadv

—sloppiness noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

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

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