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sloppily

adv
/ˈslɒpɪli/UK/ˈslɑpɪli/US

Etymology

From sloppy + -ly.

  1. inherited from slyppe
  2. inherited from *sloppe✻
  3. inherited from *sloppe✻
  4. formed as sloppy — “slop + -y”
  5. formed as sloppily — “sloppy + -ly”

Definitions

  1. In a sloppy manner, not neatly.

    • […] as soul-deadeningly, eye-strainingly, sleep-inducingly boring as going through fourteen file boxes of sloppily photostatted bank records.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sloppily. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA