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sloppy

[slop-ee] / ˈslɒp i /


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But a succession of mistakes - handling errors, needless offloads, sloppy penalties – allowed Tonga to control the momentum for much of the game.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

By the time their performance improved in Lisbon on Thursday, they were three goals down and effectively already out of the contest, hamstrung by their own sloppy mistakes.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Two innings later, the Dodgers took the lead again, rewarded for hard contact as the Brewers’ defense showed its first signs of sloppy play.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

The upshot is the worlds-collide awkwardness of today’s AI moment, which—I nevertheless predict—will rapidly clarify itself as our metaphors become less sloppy and the punditry actually begins to learn what it’s talking about.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

But every time I see Maddy, the words she said to Sara whirl in my mind as if they’ve been thrown into a blender and whipped into a sloppy mess.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

But if the early results—and my own scrolling habits—are anything to go by, it’s about to get a lot sloppier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2025

This boosts the formation of the collagen network, but also results in a sloppier, less optimal collagen network.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 8, 2024

They couldn’t have been much sloppier on Christmas Day.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 25, 2023

Yet even as the Suns became the sloppier team, they were also the better at making the possessions they did have count.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2023

The more Tom Bolles bellowed at them through his megaphone, the sloppier they seemed to get.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

Corrain also admitted to making up "the world's sloppiest chat with a non-existent friend who was supposedly to blame, and sent fake apologies for the actions of said 'friend,' which only made things worse."

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2023

But Biskind can also get sloppy, and “Pandora’s Box” finds him at his sloppiest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

Charlotte Towner said of her American bully XL Coco: "She's just the sloppiest, dopiest dog I've ever owned. She's great with other people, her only downside is she gets excited when she sees people."

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2023

But the traffic jams, track blockage, water on the racing surface and bumpy Nashville city streets all played a part in one of the sloppiest IndyCar races in years.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2022

Sam, I noted, never took his eyes off ours, which was unfortunate since it was by far the sloppiest of the lot.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin


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