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sloppiness

noun

Etymology

From sloppy + -ness.

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

Definitions

  1. The property of being sloppy.

    • Nobody troubles to keep his word, to carry out literally his undertakings. In my small way I try to set that right by showing them the logical development of their ways. I am, in fact, the sworn enemy of anything approaching sloppiness.

  2. The result or product of being sloppy.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sloppiness. 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