sloppily

Example Sentences

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Belgium striker Lukaku was set to be introduced just as Yildiz effectively sealed the points in the 77nd minute, coolly rolling home Juve's second after a Napoli defender sloppily gave the ball to Fabio Miretti.

From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026

As the Coast Guard followed it, the crew sloppily painted a Russian flag on its side, changed its name to the Marinera and switched its registration to Russia.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

My sermon — which I would deliver sloppily in the smoking section at parties, annoyingly self-satisfied and convinced that I had figured it all out — became this: If you’re cool now, you’re cool forever.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2025

Her language is imprecise, and that seems to be the point: She excels at sowing chaos with ambiguity and sloppily constructed principles.

From Slate • Jan. 14, 2025

I arrived at a village where there was nothing to eat except for the coconuts that sloppily hung from the trees, as if teasing me, daring me to pluck them.

From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah