What's the difference between sloppily and sloppy?

Sloppily


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Chelsea might have added a second long before their rivals surrendered possession sloppily, not for the first time, in central midfield, allowing the visitors to break at pace.
  • (2) When the first half ended Austria had dominated and, sloppily, spurned the chance to be on level terms.
  • (3) Before the election Cameron sloppily conceded more devolution to Edinburgh with no commensurate fiscal responsibility.
  • (4) 3.19am BST 8 mins: Warning for the USA as Besler gives the ball away sloppily, allowing Cavadov a pop from distance, that forces Howard to tip the ball over.
  • (5) Eigen added that confidentiality clauses are often overprotective and "sloppily written", and must be subject to scrutiny.
  • (6) We do not propose the technique to cover sloppily constructed anastomoses.
  • (7) 2.51am BST 44 mins Both teams are giving the ball away rather sloppily right now and the crowd sound understandably indifferent about what they're seeing.
  • (8) Manuel Pellegrini says win at Dynamo Kyiv justifies weak team at Chelsea Read more Until a delightful curled strike by Yaya Touré in the last minute gave City a two‑goal cushion, Manuel Pellegrini’s team had sloppily allowed Kyiv back into the tie during a second half in which they scored and gave City other scares.
  • (9) Sloppily drafted, the original proposals came in what Kenneth Clarke conceded was a "very green paper", but were nonetheless immediately rushed into a bill, with the white paper stage being skipped.

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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