What's the difference between slippy and sloppy?

Slippy


Definition:

  • (a.) Slippery.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He stared not at the twitching Petrobras P36 with its concrete in the mere, not at its drill ovipositor injecting slippy black rig eggs into England, but at the sea.
  • (2) A software fault in the anti-lock braking system means the brakes lose power momentarily on rough or slippy surfaces.
  • (3) You can paint the name of your favourite rider on the road, though you are asked to use non-slippy chalk-based paint so that the riders don't come a cropper.
  • (4) It’s a bit slippy, but I knew I had to keep my cool,” said Jones, and she did, staying with Australia’s Angela Ballard and the Canadian Diane Roy as the more experienced pair pulled away from the pack in the final lap to take gold and silver respectively.
  • (5) Cons • They feel different and their slippiness makes them harder to count.

Sloppy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 12.19am BST 43 mins Another sloppy pass from Donovan gifts possession to Jamaica.
  • (2) The email also lashed out at the New York Times 's “sloppy” reporting, echoing a previous strategy of attacking the MSNBC network over its coverage of the so-called “Bridgegate” scandal.
  • (3) Spurs were almost sleepwalking to a comfortable win, with even the crowd lulled into the inevitability of it all, when sloppiness flared.
  • (4) Their defence was all at sea for the opening 15 minutes but they survived the early pressure despite an array of sloppy mistakes.
  • (5) We have great enthusiasm and toughness but we had also had some self-inflicted wounds and sloppiness.
  • (6) Maybe Byron, or Yukio Mishima, the Japanese writer, who killed himself very dramatically, but that was more sloppy than this thing that Bowie has done now.
  • (7) The sloppy paired locus is involved in the establishment of the metameric body plan of the Drosophila embryo.
  • (8) If you have been sloppy, they will mention it in the reviews and it will hurt your sales."
  • (9) Sometimes you need good and right decisions and we didn’t have that.” After Southampton passed up several chances to score a crucial away goal, Jay Rodriguez was guilty of a sloppy pass on the edge of his own penalty area that led to Rasmussen slotting home the night’s only goal.
  • (10) The first period was a difficult watch and the only flicker of excitement came on 34 minutes when Fischer surged on to a sloppy back pass from James Ward-Prowse.
  • (11) 4.36am BST Final thoughts The US go top of the group, albeit temporarily, but they made it hard on themselves again with yet another sloppy late goal, and a poorly played set piece goal to boot.
  • (12) He was sloppy and careless, never more so than when Cunningham, a blown-up cruiserweight more than 3st lighter and years past his best, detonated a right hook on his exposed chin that sent his doughy form crashing to the canvas in the second round.
  • (13) In New York people go to parties and get drunk, but there is no equivalent to the sheer sloppiness of London night buses a week before Christmas.
  • (14) They see understaffed units, the sloppy work of press officers and attempts to stop journalists from reporting the real problems on the ground.
  • (15) Hughes could point to Arnautovic’s emphatic finish beyond Steve Mandanda in stoppage time, providing only his team’s third league goal of season, but the sloppiness had been as much in evidence among his forward thinkers.
  • (16) Michael Dawson had only been on the pitch for a minute as a replacement for the injured Vertonghen when he steered a sloppy pass inside for Kaboul.
  • (17) (To argue that the presence of sloppy, boiling-hot calzones belies their sandwich nature is a debate on elaboration, not intention, like saying that a leaky building proves that buildings are not a form of shelter.)
  • (18) If the mixture is a little sloppy, stir in 1-3 tsp flour.
  • (19) The commission criticised the autopsies performed by the attorney general’s office as being sloppy and incomplete and said the morgue turned over the wrong body to one family.
  • (20) 4.01am BST Heat 75-69 Spurs, 1:23 remaining, third quarter ANOTHER sloppy turnover for San Antonio, that's I think eight for the quarter?

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