Meaning

Slippery and messy..

Definitions by Sense

1. Slippery and messy.
2. In a messy and poorly done manner; sloppily
3. Messiness.
4. Careless imprecision.
5. Lack of clear-headedness; fuzzy thinking.
6. Watery unappetizing food; gruel.
7. A low-class drinking establishment.
8. Anything that is sloppy.

Example Sentences

The roads will be a bit sloppery, but Dobbin isn't too old to splash through them at a rattling pace.

Thanks to the discipline of daily habit, my hands and jaws performed their accustomed tasks, but my mind was in a condition alternately comatose and chaotic, so much so that it was a matter of surprise to me when I found my eyes resting on the bones of my sole and the sloppery trail of a departed omelette.

When, pressures be to our hoary frother, the pop gave his sullen bulletaction and, bilge, sled a movement of catharic emulsipotion down the sloppery slide of a slaunty to tilted liftyelandsmen.

Sendak describes the "slippery, sloppery, curvy, altogether delicious Art Deco palazzos [that] invited you to slide and bump along, in and out of flaming colored mazes [. . .], and past grand, even apocalyptic, oceans and skies."

'Could you take a message for him, please?' he said in Trevor Dann's distinctive Midlands tones. 'Could you tell him I think he's a big load of sloppery old bollocks.'

The investigator was expected to determine whether the place was "run sloppery, was it a messy looking place or not ..." and also if the premises were reasonably safe.

And clearly the sailor suit could not trace its true home to a country like ours, which goes in for a widespread concept of uniform usage best described as "sloppery."

She abandoned the breakfast nook to its sloppery ten seconds later and accepted Horvil's multi request.

Word Forms

• more sloppery
• most sloppery
• slopperies

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Use sloppery when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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