sloppery
sloppery adjective: slippery and messy.
Adjective
sloppery (comparative more sloppery, superlative most sloppery)
- Slippery and messy.
- The roads will be a bit sloppery, but Dobbin isn't too old to splash through them at a rattling pace.1886, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, The Squire of Sandal-Side: A Pastoral Romance, page 232
- Thanks to the discipline of daily habit, my hands and jaws performed their accustomed tasks, but my mind was in a condition alternately comatose and chaotic, so much so that it was a matter of surprise to me when I found my eyes resting on the bones of my sole and the sloppery trail of a departed...1902, Robert Marshall, The Haunted Major, page 108
Adverb
sloppery (comparative more sloppery, superlative most sloppery)
Noun
sloppery (countable and uncountable, plural slopperies)
- 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."2003, Paul Fussell, Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear, →ISBN, page 160
- She abandoned the breakfast nook to its sloppery ten seconds later and accepted Horvil's multi request.2009, David Louis Edelman, Multireal, →ISBN
- Careless imprecision.
- Extremes, they say, are prone to meet ; thus, while Yachting is, in matter of practical usage and etiquette, the most ultra exclusive of all our National Sports — presto, it has become the machinery for retail sloppery in the hire of pleasure boats.1853, John William Carleton, The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'. (July), page 116
- Were our modern instrumental sloppery conceivable, had they really grasped the most essential thing in Beethoven's tone-poems?1977, Carl Friedrich Glasenapp, William Ashton Ellis, Life of Richard Wagner - Volume 3, page 305
- Lack of clear-headedness; fuzzy thinking.
- This was just — Sloppery. The humbug of the woe-of-the-world business filled her with scorn.1935, Warwick Deeping, The golden cord, page 119
- Their most cherished ambition thereafter is a swift, exciting falling-in-love, a rapid courtship, a sackful of sentimental sloppery and then, then marriage.1949, Ladies' Home Journal - Volume 66, page 97
- Watery unappetizing food; gruel.
- Stews out of all such piddling sloppery, Starvation gruel.1838, Samuel Kettell, Yankee Notions: A Medley, page 105
- One day, it is in February, 1731, as I compute, they are sitting, her Sonsfeld and she, at their sad mess of so-called dinner, in their remote uppoer story of the Berlin Schloss, tramp of sentries the one thing audible; and were "looking mournfully at one another, with nothing to eat but a soup of...1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. Of Prussia, Frederick the Great
- A low-class drinking establishment.
- So he jess goes an' sends one on 'em off to England an' 'tother to the south on a two year mishonerry trip, 'an then he comes along 'an claps his cock-eyed sign on the shebang 'an now it's: “All Saints Holy Zion's Co-operative distillery'” or sloppery, wichever ye like.1890, Herman Isidore Stern, Evelyn Gray: Or, The Victims of Our Western Turks
- I suppose Ulleeze is matronly now; but character does not change and were it not for the previously-acknowledged, deadly insidiousness of the stuff, I could not imagine her, even corpulent and with offspring in tow, as guzzling Nut Strawberry Perfection in a sloppery.1966, The Double Dealer - Volumes 1-2, page 153
- Anything that is sloppy.
- It is a sloppery; a costume that never ought to be seen out of the precincts of a stable-yard.1847, The Literary Gazette
- From top to bottom the parsonage was a model of primness and cleanly discomfort, angular, empty, white and cold, with that eternal smell of polish and soap and ubiquitously slippery sloppery in which the soul of the Dutch housewife delights.1893, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers
Examples of sloppery in a sentence
- 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.1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake:
- 'Could you tell him I think he's a big load of sloppery old bollocks.'2010, Lucian Randall, Disgusting Bliss: The Brass Eye of Chris Morris, →ISBN:
- Partly to profits at various levels, e.g. higher wages for the miners, partly to sloppery.2012, Riazuddin, Physics and Contemporary Needs - Volume 4, →ISBN, page 170:
- 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.1969, Sara Jackson, Stephen Thomas, Dark with no sorrow, page 62:
Forms of sloppery
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more sloppery |
| superlative | most sloppery |
| Adverb | |
| comparative | more sloppery |
| superlative | most sloppery |
| Noun | |
| plural | slopperies |
Origin of sloppery
Blend of slippery + sloppy or from slop + -ery (adjectival suffix).
From slop + -ery.
Questions about sloppery
- What does sloppery mean?
- Sloppery means slippery and messy.
- How do you use sloppery in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is sloppery?
- Sloppery can be an adjective, an adverb or a noun.
Words near sloppery in the dictionary
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