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Definition of Sloppily
1. Adverb. In a sloppy manner. "This work was done rather sloppily"
Definition of Sloppily
1. Adverb. In a sloppy manner, not neatly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sloppily
1. sloppy [adv] - See also: sloppy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sloppily
Literary usage of Sloppily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Excavations at Pylos in Elis by John E. Coleman (1986)
"Reserved bands, sloppily executed: two or three on upper neck, one perhaps at
level of ... Reserved bands, sloppily painted: three on neck, two on shoulder. ..."
2. Boot Camps for Juvenile Offenders: An Implementation Evaluation of Three by Blair B. Borque (1997)
"Often dresses sloppily or improperly; fails to meet boot camp standards of personal
cleanliness & grooming; does not maintain "military" bearing (slouches ..."
3. Crimson Architectural Historians 1994-2002 by Stichting Rotterdam-Maaskant (2002)
"sloppily built city spoils landscape. sloppily networked urban tissue reduces
the opportunity for that tissue to become urban. Compact shape and network are ..."
4. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1920)
"Now if we Americans do not care enough for this, our great possession, to guard
and use it' well, to pronounce it fitly, not sloppily, to speak it correctly ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1886)
"... Belgique takes its pleasure sadly enough, in a great empty clubhouse, at
isolated balls at the governor's residence, and in sloppily got- up ..."
6. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1882)
"... or gutters that slope from them down to the river-levels, carrying the pumped-up
water, and letting it splash and drip over their messed sides sloppily. ..."
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