sloppiness

Example Sentences

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And sloppiness is never a good investment strategy, no matter the season.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 12, 2025

The Brewers play the game in a way that leads to uncharacteristic sloppiness from their adversaries—and that superpower has transformed them into an unlikely candidate to win the franchise’s first-ever championship.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 14, 2025

But perhaps even more alarming to them is the journalistic sloppiness Weiss will bring, because it’s a particular constant at the Free Press.

From Slate • Oct. 6, 2025

It is the sloppiness that frustrates supporters, made all the more infuriating by the knowledge of how good England can be at their best.

From BBC • Jun. 19, 2025

The epistemological sloppiness that, in Western culture, characterizes references to experience before the Scientific Revolution is not a necessary characteristic of pre-scientific societies.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton