sloppiness

• “Good God, that kind of sloppiness is astonishing, especially seeing as the errors are not due to the difficulty of the words being used.”

  Five-typo feast of fail

• “The general level of sloppiness is pervasive around the industry," said Diane Thompson, counsel at the National Consumer Law Center.”

  The Huffington Post: Bank Of America Delays Foreclosures In 23 States

• “The slops and water-witcheries of the coffee - houses, varying only in sloppiness and witchery, never even approximate or suggest what you and I are accustomed to drink as tea and coffee.”

  COFFEE-HOUSES AND DOSS-HOUSES

• “When you are sloppy with your assertions, don't complain when their sloppiness is pointed out to you.”

  Beckwith on ID

• “The literary equivalent of that sloppiness is lazy language and lack of credibility.”

  Reality Check Ahead

• “Playing before 68,031 of their fans, they took advantage of New Orleans 'sloppiness from the first play, a fumbled kickoff.”

  USATODAY.com - Scores

• “The slops and water-witcheries of the coffee-houses, varying only in sloppiness and witchery, never even approximate or suggest what you and I are accustomed to drink as tea and coffee.”

  Coffee-Houses and Doss-Houses

• “Charles Grassley, ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, which will question Geithner next Wednesday, hasn't formally taken a position on the nominee, and he faulted Geithner for tax "sloppiness" - but he also said yesterday: "I don't believe there's any doubt about his qualifications.”

  DN_EarthtoPhilly

• “Some of it is in-built bias and some of it is plain sloppiness.”

  What we are up against

• “The shorthand becomes harmful — that is, the sloppiness exceeds the usefulness — when we start arguing about whether a beanbag is a chair in the abstract, rather than asking “Why do you want to know?””

  The Volokh Conspiracy » What means this “English”?:

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