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From slop + -y.
sloppy (comparative sloppier, superlative sloppiest)
- Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
- Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
- Imprecise or loose.
a sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit
very wet; covered in or composed of slop
- Bulgarian: кален (bg) (kalen), пълен с локви (pǎlen s lokvi)
- Catalan: amarat (ca) m
- Czech: zablácený, rozbředlý, mokrý (cs)
- Finnish: vetinen (fi), vetelä (fi), juokseva (fi), märkä (fi)
- French: mouillé (fr), trop liquide
- German: nass (de), klitschnass (de)
- Italian: lordo (it), inzuppato (it)
- Macedonian: мо́кар (mókar), ка́шест (kášest)
- Maori: kūrarirari
- Russian: мо́крый (ru) (mókryj), сля́котный (ru) (sljákotnyj)
- Spanish: empapado (es)
- Ukrainian: мо́крий (mókryj)
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messy; not neat, elegant, or careful
- Azerbaijani: səhlənkar
- Bulgarian: недоизкусурен (bg) (nedoizkusuren), немарлив (bg) (nemarliv)
- Catalan: matusser (ca) m, bast (ca) m, desmanegat m, potiner (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 吊兒郎當／吊儿郎当 (zh) (diàorlàngdàng)
- Czech: nepořádný (cs), ledabylý, nedbalý, lajdácký, odbytý
- Danish: sjusket
- Dutch: slordig (nl)
- Finnish: huolimaton (fi), hutiloitu, kehno (fi)
- French: bâclé (fr), négligé (fr)
- Georgian: დაუდევარი (daudevari), მოუწესრიგებელი (mouc̣esrigebeli)
- German: schlampig (de), salopp (de)
- Irish: liobarnach
- Italian: sciatto (it), trascurato (it), negletto (it)
- Japanese: ぐちゃぐちゃ (ja) (guchagucha), ずさんな (zusan na), だらしない (ja) (darashinai)
- Macedonian: неу́реден (neúreden), не́брежен (nébrežen), невнима́телен (nevnimátelen), ра́спуштен (ráspušten)
- Maori: hakuhakutai, hakirara
- Persian: شلخته (fa) (šelaxte)
- Plautdietsch: pukjrich
- Polish: niechlujny (pl)
- Portuguese: desleixado (pt)
- Russian: неря́шливый (ru) (nerjášlivyj), небре́жный (ru) (nebréžnyj), неаккура́тный (ru) (neakkurátnyj)
- Spanish: desprolijo (es), chapucero (es), descuidado (es), desaliñado (es), desaseado (es)
- Swedish: slarvig (sv)
- Ukrainian: неоха́йний (neoxájnyj), недба́лий (nedbályj)
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imprecise or loose
- Bulgarian: небрежен (bg) (nebrežen)
- Czech: odbytý, lajdácký, nedbalý, nepřesný
- Finnish: epätarkka (fi), väljä (fi)
- French: lâche (fr), large (fr), ample (fr)
- German: salopp (de)
- Hungarian: hanyag (hu), felületes (hu)
- Italian: abborracciato (it), approssimativo (it), maccheronico (it)
- Macedonian: сло́боден (slóboden), не́брежен (nébrežen)
- Maori: pakirara, hakirara, hakurara
- Plautdietsch: schlopmetzich
- Russian: свобо́дный (ru) (svobódnyj)
- Swedish: slapp (sv)
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- “sloppy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “sloppy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
