Explore Sloppily through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Sloppily meaning
In a sloppy manner, not neatly.
Using Sloppily
- The main meaning on this page is: In a sloppy manner, not neatly.
- In the example corpus, sloppily often appears in combinations such as: sloppily and, sloppily given, played sloppily.
Context around Sloppily
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 9 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sloppily
- In this selection, "sloppily" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 20.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, played, brighton, down, given, conceded and eating stand out and add context to how "sloppily" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include after sloppily refilling his and army which sloppily overran the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sloppily" sits close to words such as aaditya, aardman and abbess, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sloppily
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Both German goals were sloppily given away. (7 words)
England have started the second half very sloppily. (8 words)
Holding gives the ball away sloppily and Henderson plays Salah in behind. (12 words)
She doesn’t need a sloppily bedazzled T-shirt to tell you what you probably already know: This friend could manage to turn a conversation about your dying dog into an hour-long exploration of the last 10 years of her dating history. (43 words)
Veteran QB Josh Johnson scored on a 1-yard sneak and threw a TD pass for the Lions, who played sloppily — 12 penalties — and not up to coach Matt Patricia’s standards. (32 words)
Once over the border, the Russian soldiers easily pushed past fortifications — like trenches, land mines and tank barriers — some of which, Ukrainian troops said, were insufficient or sloppily constructed. (29 words)
I wonder if kissing was just faces sloppily pressed up against each other? (13 words)
Example sentences (20)
Brighton sloppily conceded possession and Bryan Mbeumo flicked the ball into Toney’s path for a low finish.
First, when she arrived, he had gotten to the restaurant before her and was already sitting down, sloppily eating some chips and salsa.
Holding gives the ball away sloppily and Henderson plays Salah in behind.
The six Ukrainian reactors at Zaporizyzya are now occupied by a ragtag Russian army, which sloppily overran the apocalyptic site at Chernobyl.
After sloppily refilling his glass and downing it, he unsteadily stands and makes his way to Claire’s bedroom, where she’s screaming in existential pain.
It led to a powerful shot that Amrinder sloppily deflected into the danger area, where Cummings showed excellent instincts to score with a simple tap-in.
It was a very avoidable goal to have conceded as City had sloppily given the ball away before the corner.
Once over the border, the Russian soldiers easily pushed past fortifications — like trenches, land mines and tank barriers — some of which, Ukrainian troops said, were insufficient or sloppily constructed.
The sloppily produced video is tedious and bumbling, and has been panned across the ideological spectrum among the few who bothered to watch.
They played sloppily and started off slow, which is one the reasons they lost, Rosen said.
Arsenal started sloppily in London and Ezequiel Garay's miss from a few yards out was an early warning.
England have started the second half very sloppily.
He wept in the dock as he denied his “forcefully and sloppily” kissing a woman train passenger amounted to sexual assault.
I wonder if kissing was just faces sloppily pressed up against each other?
She doesn’t need a sloppily bedazzled T-shirt to tell you what you probably already know: This friend could manage to turn a conversation about your dying dog into an hour-long exploration of the last 10 years of her dating history.
Veteran QB Josh Johnson scored on a 1-yard sneak and threw a TD pass for the Lions, who played sloppily — 12 penalties — and not up to coach Matt Patricia’s standards.
Both German goals were sloppily given away.
By working sloppily, unskilled workers may drag down the average skill of labor, thus increasing the average labor time necessary for the production of each unit commodity.
Once I carried him milk in a bottle Corked sloppily with paper.
She lambasted the book as a "sloppily researched polemic as dismissible as a hackneyed adventure film.
Common combinations with sloppily
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: