Adjective
- 1. sloppy, untidy (vs. tidy)
- usage: lacking neatness or order; "a sloppy room"; "sloppy habits"
- 2. sloppy, wet (vs. dry)
- usage: wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material; "a sloppy floor"; "a sloppy saucer"
- 3. boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged, wet (vs. dry)
- usage: (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"
- 4. baggy, loose-fitting, sloppy, loose (vs. tight)
- usage: not fitting closely; hanging loosely; "baggy trousers"; "a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather"
- 5. overemotional, sloppy, emotional (vs. unemotional)
- usage: excessively or abnormally emotional
- 6. haphazard, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy, careless (vs. careful)
- usage: marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"
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