| ADJECTIVE | all | sloppy | lacking neatness or order |
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| all | sloppy | wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material | |
| all | sloppy, boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged | (of soil) soft and watery | |
| all | sloppy, baggy, loose-fitting | not fitting closely | |
| all | sloppy, overemotional | excessively or abnormally emotional | |
| all | sloppy, haphazard, slapdash, slipshod | marked by great carelessness |
| Sounds | slaa'piy | |
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| Rhymes | aromatherapy ... zippy: 84 rhymes with piy... | |
| Meaning | lacking neatness or order. | |
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| Broader | untidy | not neat and tidy |
| Spanish | dejado, descuidado | |
| Nouns | sloppiness | a lack of order and tidiness |
| Adverbs | sloppily | in a sloppy manner |
| Meaning | wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material. | |
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| Broader | wet | Covered or soaked with a liquid such as water |
| Nouns | sloppiness | the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water |
| Meaning | (of soil) soft and watery. | |
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| Synonyms | boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged | |
| Broader | wet | Covered or soaked with a liquid such as water |
| Spanish | cenagoso, fangoso, lodoso, pantanoso | |
| Catalan | pantanós | |
| Nouns | slop | deep soft mud in water or slush |
| sloppiness | the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water | |
| Meaning | not fitting closely; hanging loosely. | |
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| Synonyms | baggy, loose-fitting | |
| Broader | loose | not tight |
| Spanish | ancho, holgado, suelto | |
| Catalan | ample, folgat | |
| Meaning | excessively or abnormally emotional. | |
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| Synonym | overemotional | |
| Broader | emotional | Of more than usual emotion |
| Nouns | slop | writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental |
| sloppiness | falsely emotional in a maudlin way | |
| Meaning | marked by great carelessness. | |
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| Example | "sloppy workmanship" | |
| Synonyms | haphazard, slapdash, slipshod | |
| Broader | careless | marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness |
| Spanish | chapucero, chapuzas, descuidado, manazas, torpe | |
| Catalan | barroer, descuidat, maldestre, matusser, potiner, sapastre | |
| Nouns | sloppiness | the quality of not being careful or taking pains |
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