How to Use sloppy in a Sentence

sloppy

adjective

• Your work has been very sloppy lately.
• Xavier can't get caught with a sloppy game on the road.
  — Adam Baum, The Enquirer, 18 Jan. 2023
• On the court below him, the well-heeled Heels looked sloppy.
  — Bruce Schoenfeld, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2023
• The Celtics had a sloppy start, with six turnovers over the game’s first eight minutes.
  — Adam Himmelsbach, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Feb. 2023
• The Huskies started off the game sloppy with two straight turnovers.
  — Shreyas Laddha, courant.com, 27 Feb. 2022
• In fact, the Chargers were as sloppy and lethargic as the Ravens were a week ago against the Colts.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 17 Oct. 2021
• This was painful to watch, and not just the sloppy play with wedges and two water balls.
  — CBS News, 21 May 2022
• The Chargers were flagged nine times for 79 yards in a game that was sloppy, rules-wise.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• The result was nine first-half turnovers and a handful of sloppy plays.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Dec. 2022
• The play fit right in to the sloppy baseball played between these teams over the past two years.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 27 Apr. 2022
• That’s about all there is to know about how lifeless and sloppy this game was.
  — Derrik Klassen, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2023
• The Patriots’ one chance may be if the Bills get sloppy with the football.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2023
• Some are quite sloppy and others are a bit more stealth.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 3 June 2022
• Humor tends to wilt through the decades; what was once a bite becomes a sloppy kiss.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
• Woods made a sloppy bogey at the par-5 eighth, where a poor wedge shot and errant chip led to a 6.
  — Paul Newberry, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2022
• One sloppy play cost them from moving up in the standings.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2023
• The set-pieces look sloppy, the visual effects are all over the place, and the laughs come largely at the movie’s expense.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 30 Sep. 2021
• But sloppy play soon spread like a virus, and penalty flags flew throughout the game.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 4 Sep. 2022
• It’s been a sloppy stretch for the Tide, throwing a few balls away in transition.
  — Nick Alvarez | [e-mail], al, 16 Mar. 2023
• The Broncos were sloppy, with 12 penalties and two fumbles on the goal line.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2022
• Like, this turnover in the second quarter is just sloppy.
  — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Nov. 2021
• Sitake admitted the technique was sloppy in the secondary late in the game.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 6 Sep. 2022
• At times could be a little sloppy with his drop and set not planting with a firm base.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2022
• The Devils played something of a sloppy game with nine penalties and two turnovers.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 16 Nov. 2021
• The game was as sloppy as the cold, rainy weather on Cleveland's lakefront.
  — Nate Ulrich, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2021
• The sloppy play in the rain and a miserable first half left little to cheer except a defense that kept the team in the hunt.
  — John Frank, Axios, 30 Sep. 2024
• In that flat and sloppy and-destroyed-at-home fashion? Whoa.
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2023
• Neither team was able to break through in a sloppy first half as turnovers were a key issue for both sides.
  — Kyle Foley, Orlando Sentinel, 21 July 2024
• That’s one of the lessons these Rams, especially the younger ones, can take away from this sloppy experience.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
• But what surprises me is that the playing was a little sloppy back then, but the vocals were really tight.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024