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sloppy

 adjective
     
slop‧py
1 not done carefully or thoroughly [= careless]:
sloppy work
His written reports are incredibly sloppy.
2 sloppy clothes are loose-fitting, untidy, or dirty:
Ann was dressed in a sloppy brown sweater.
3 expressing feelings of love too strongly and in a silly way [= slushy]:
The film is a sloppy romance.
4 not solid enough:
sloppy jelly
—sloppily adverb
—sloppiness noun [uncountable]
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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