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sloppier

sloppier is the comparative form of sloppy.

Meaning of sloppy

Adjective

sloppy (comparative sloppier, superlative sloppiest)

  1. Composed of or covered in slop; very wet.
    • The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
  2. Careless, messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
    • The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
  3. Imprecise or loose.
    • a sloppy measurement; a sloppy fit
  4. (derogatory) Characteristic of or resembling AI slop.
    • Among the key criticisms: the writing in the finale was “some of the sloppiest … I’ve ever watched”, while the show in general was a “hot mess of faux character archs [sic]” which made “repeated heavy-handed attempts” to show that “Man=Problem”. (Now that’s a tattoo-worthy phrase if ever there was...2024 February 23, Paul MacInnes, “‘Some of the sloppiest writing I’ve ever watched’: how True Detective’s creator turned on his own show”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian...

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Questions about sloppier

What is sloppier the comparative form of?
Sloppier is the comparative form of sloppy.

Words near sloppier in the dictionary

  1. slopped out
  2. slopper
  3. slopperies
  4. sloppers
  5. sloppery
  6. sloppier
  7. sloppiest
  8. sloppification
  9. sloppified
  10. sloppifies
  11. sloppify

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sloppier (page history and authors); sloppy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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