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Meaning of sloppy

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  sloppy
      adj 1: lacking neatness or order; "a sloppy room"; "sloppy
             habits"
      2: wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material; "a
         sloppy floor"; "a sloppy saucer"
      3: (of soil) soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot";
         "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland";
         "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the
         pond"; "swampy bayous" [syn: {boggy}, {marshy}, {miry},
         {mucky}, {muddy}, {quaggy}, {sloppy}, {sloughy}, {soggy},
         {squashy}, {swampy}, {waterlogged}]
      4: not fitting closely; hanging loosely; "baggy trousers"; "a
         loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather" [syn:
         {baggy}, {loose-fitting}, {sloppy}]
      5: excessively or abnormally emotional [syn: {overemotional},
         {sloppy}]
      6: marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of
         record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling";
         "sloppy workmanship" [syn: {haphazard}, {slapdash},
         {slipshod}, {sloppy}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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