(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?
Untidy
Definition:
(a.) Unseasonable; untimely.
(a.) Not tidy or neat; slovenly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nomboniso Gasa, an academic who introduced Ramphele to the media at an Agang SA launch event nearly a year ago, expressed disappointment at her U-turn: "I do think Mamphela has been extremely untidy in the way she's dealt with this.
(2) So the second about-turn means Delph may have has questions to answer regarding his thought process throughout an saga that has become untidy.
(3) The three of us agreed it was quiet, non-threatening, not particularly untidy, just a bit rundown – and obviously a very low-income area.
(4) There will be many Lib Dems – not just those close to Nick Clegg – who will be happy at his untidy end, leaving not just the party, but also politics.
(5) That thing of people rolling over and going, "Oh, it looks like I'm making things a bit untidy.
(6) So there's more untidy law waiting to be reformed or reconciled.
(7) Rollings was bright, charming, slightly untidy; he became Foxtons’ fixer, its good cop.
(8) I did once butterfly a leg of lamb while watching a YouTube video of someone demonstrating the procedure, but the result was pretty untidy.
(9) He lacks a bit of control in his frame so it all feels a bit untidy, but a very good start.
(10) Brook took his chance in a tight and at times untidy clash, with the judges handing him the contest 114-114, 117-111, 116-112.
(11) This campaign has unravelled and, while they could justifiably depart here bemoaning the non-award of a second-half penalty and even disputing the validity of Crystal Palace’s opening goal, this was all too frenzied and untidy for comfort.
(12) He told media that he used the word to refer to "untidy" women, not in a derogatory way.
(13) Surgeons should realize that their major involvements in research will lie in the relatively untidy field of clinical science, and it is hoped that this view will continue to influence the activities of the SRS.
(14) Three problems the authors think important in replantation of untidy amputations are discussed based on our 99 replantations with the success rate of 92.6% over a 4-year period.
(15) The momentum should have been theirs after Azpilicueta’s untidy lunge, studs up, into Mile Jedinak, but hope proved horribly short-lived.
(16) In an untidy start Sebastián Coates, perhaps momentarily forgetting he was no longer an Anfield defender, gifted possession to Philippe Coutinho.
(17) The ruling clears the way for the publication of the “black spider” memos, so called because of the prince’s notoriously untidy handwriting.
(18) He will need to get his hands dirty in the untidy and ruthless business that is Indian politics," one said in a cable entitled The son also rises: Rahul Gandhi takes another step towards top job.
(19) Littlewood was born out of wedlock in Stockwell, south London, to a mother who frowned on books, and she wrote later of feeling ugly, untidy and alien.
(20) He also caused controversy in 1999 in Edinburgh when he saw an untidy fuse box during a tour of a factory.