Sloppy is an English word with synonyms like wet or baggy. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Sloppy in a sentence
Sloppy meaning
- Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
- Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
- Imprecise or loose.
Synonyms of Sloppy
Using Sloppy
- The main meaning on this page is: Very wet; covered in or composed of slop. | Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful. | Imprecise or loose.
- Useful related words include: wet, baggy, waterlogged, swampy.
- In the example corpus, sloppy often appears in combinations such as: sloppy and, the sloppy, and sloppy.
Context around Sloppy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 6 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sloppy
- In this selection, "sloppy" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 19.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, bombastic, racist, poor, play, hero and history stand out and add context to how "sloppy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bombastic sloppy hero from and a sloppy 10 minutes. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sloppy" sits close to words such as affirming, antigua and betts, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sloppy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A sloppy 10 minutes cost Everton there. (7 words)
But don’t let the sloppy terminology confuse you. (9 words)
Every move Piper did seemed either sloppy or painful or both. (11 words)
Chesterfield responded with an effort by Grigg which was smartly saved by Dibble whose opposite number Boot was in action a minute later to keep out a shot from McLean after a brief spell of sloppy defending by the visitors’ rear-guard. (42 words)
Biden’s people all but certainly learned Nov. 2 or Aug. 8 of last year that he was illegally in possession of classified material — and had been stunningly sloppy about security. (31 words)
Both the former president and current one were sloppy with classified documents, but only one of them has an aggressive prosecutor, his home raided and his case before a grand jury. (31 words)
Example sentences (20)
He is a bombastic, sloppy hero from our bombastic, sloppy history, origins undetermined, a folk tale of American success.
A couple of sloppy mistakes, most notably in Canada, and multiple failures to reach Q3 haven’t helped, with the young Brit 49 points off Hamilton.
Across four hours of testimony, one speaker after another blasted the proposal as racist, sloppy, dangerous, and unnecessary.
Aided by some sloppy play from their opponents, Borthwick’s side found reserves of belief and drive that few knew they possessed.
A sloppy 10 minutes cost Everton there.
A sloppy field favors the running team, not the finesse passing team.
Aspects of the display were sloppy and a better side would have made them pay.
At times in the first half, Torquay had been poor, sloppy and unsure on the ball.
Biden’s people all but certainly learned Nov. 2 or Aug. 8 of last year that he was illegally in possession of classified material — and had been stunningly sloppy about security.
Both the former president and current one were sloppy with classified documents, but only one of them has an aggressive prosecutor, his home raided and his case before a grand jury.
Bunko, as a classic tsundere, sternly refused and often criticized Mameda's sloppy ways.
But don’t let the sloppy terminology confuse you.
But one sloppy operator escaping detection for nine years is only a piece of the story.
But there were still sloppy moments at the back and a misplaced pass allowed Norwood a run on goal.
But when Joelinton went off, they lost a bit of fight and went really sloppy and invited Liverpool on.
Chesterfield responded with an effort by Grigg which was smartly saved by Dibble whose opposite number Boot was in action a minute later to keep out a shot from McLean after a brief spell of sloppy defending by the visitors’ rear-guard.
Despite keeping the game competitive, the Eagles could not get out of their own way with the sloppy play.
During a roundtable, Margulies joked that she was the casting team’s “sloppy thirds” after both Helen Hunt and Ashley Judd turned down the role.
Every move Piper did seemed either sloppy or painful or both.
His replacement, Jorginho, was sloppy dispossessed for Tottenham’s equaliser to make it 2-2 and it summed up the Gunners’ malaise.
Common combinations with sloppy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- sloppy and 15×
- the sloppy 15×
- and sloppy 13×
- some sloppy 11×
- sloppy play 9×
- of sloppy 8×
- was sloppy 8×
- sloppy in 8×
- sloppy joe 7×
- were sloppy 6×