sloppy

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I don't need a job, sloppy, that is what they say about you, and a lot more.

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  1. adjective Marked by a lack of neatness or order; untidy: a sloppy room.
  2. adjective Marked by a lack of care or precision; slipshod: sloppy use of language.
  3. adjective Informal Oversentimental; gushy.

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  • Though I'd be pressed to determine the difference between a technically precise performance and one that was "sloppy," I get the impression that the Milwaukee Ballet doesn't do anything half-way. —  OnMilwaukee.com
  • So sloppy was the plagiarism that typographic mistakes in the original articles were repeated, indicating that they were scanned in or cut and pasted from the Internet. —  The British National Party
  • I don't need a job, sloppy, that is what they say about you, and a lot more. —  BangorDailyNews.com > News
  • Chiefs halfback Brendon Leonard was also a little sloppy which isn't like him and halfback this week is handled by Crusaders 'No 9 Kahn Fotuali'i who made the most of his starting opportunity.
  • The company's handling of this announcement was sloppy, the language first showing up in Frontier's service TOS, though Frontier support had no idea. —  DSLreports - front page
 

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messy ·  untidy ·  muddy ·  dirty ·  clumsy ·  slovenly ·  confuse ·  uneven ·  inefficient ·  lazy ·  stupid ·  inaccurate
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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/ˈslɑpi/
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