How to Use sloppy in a Sentence

sloppy

adjective

• Your work has been very sloppy lately.
• The last year the race took place on a sloppy track was in 2018.
  — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 15 May 2021
• 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
• The Rams [practice] was a little sloppy, and the last two days weren’t very good.
  — Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 14 Aug. 2021
• The drops in sloppy, frigid conditions, as the green grass was covered in snow by the end of the game.
  — Adam Grosbard, Orange County Register, 19 Jan. 2025
• 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
• That Rodriguez failed to cover first on a grounder to the right side in the first inning was the start of a sloppy game.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2021
• The sections with sticky, sloppy mud and hog ruts threatened to take the shoes right off our feet.
  — Patrick Connolly, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Both teams were sloppy at times, but Buckhorn was able to make the plays when needed the most.
  — al, 21 Aug. 2021
• Both teams were playing the second night of back-to-back, which led to some sloppy play.
  — Matthew Coles, Chron, 9 May 2021
• One sloppy play cost them from moving up in the standings.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 25 June 2023
• Spencer is pissed at Harry’s sloppy work and tells him to take the rest of the afternoon off.
  — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 3 Jan. 2025
• Kerr said the Warriors lost the game in the third quarter, when Golden State got sloppy.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 21 May 2021
• 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 former seems to be improving as the Olympics go on, but the U.S. can’t afford to be sloppy.
  — Alexa Philippou, courant.com, 2 Aug. 2021
• Poor giveaways and sloppy play affected the second half, but Clark and Ageymang put the game on ice.
  — Felipe Cardenas, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 25 Feb 2025