sloppery

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Slippery and messy.

   • The roads will be a bit sloppery, but Dobbin isn't too old to splash through them at a rattling pace.
   • 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.
2. 2

   In a messy and poorly done manner

   In a messy and poorly done manner; sloppily

   • 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.
3. 3

   Messiness.

   • 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.
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   1. 4

      Careless imprecision.

      • Were our modern instrumental sloppery conceivable, had they really grasped the most essential thing in Beethoven's tone-poems?
      • The next question is where the winfall is going. Partly to profits at various levels, e.g. higher wages for the miners, partly to sloppery.
   2. 5

      Lack of clear-headedness

      Lack of clear-headedness; fuzzy thinking.

      • This was just — Sloppery. The humbug of the woe-of-the-world business filled her with scorn.
      • Their most cherished ambition thereafter is a swift, exciting falling-in-love, a rapid courtship, a sackful of sentimental sloppery and then, then marriage.
      • We must not allow ourselves to get into that kind of mood again, mutual self-pitying is no more admirable than self-pitying as a sole indulgence of that disgusting form of sentimental sloppery.
   3. 6

      Watery unappetizing food

      Watery unappetizing food; gruel.

      • Stews out of all such piddling sloppery, Starvation gruel.
      • I think anybody who experiences some of the western sloppery with pleasure would enjoy a horsetail in their soup.
   4. 7

      A low-class drinking establishment.

   5. 8

      Anything that is sloppy.

      • It is a sloppery; a costume that never ought to be seen out of the precincts of a stable-yard.

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