1 (of clothes) the quality of being untidy and too big or loose: --
You may need to speak to her about the sloppiness of her appearance.
The jacket seemed a bit big but I love its comfortable sloppiness.
2 the state of being too liquid, often in an unpleasant way: --
3 the quality of being silly or too emotional: --
I think too much sloppiness on a first date can be claustrophobic.
4 the quality of being messy or done in a careless way: --
Such remarkable sloppiness was the result of too much hurry.
There is not only secrecy and resistance to releasing information, but sloppiness.
My first complaint is about the intellectual sloppiness of much science reporting.
Gentleman is a good judge of what constitutes sloppiness.
But a judicial background is a useful safeguard against the sloppiness which tends to characterise the decision taking of the executive in this country.
Even more worrying is that this seems to be not merely caused by sloppiness, but may stem from a lack of understanding of what academic work entails.
Finally, individual differences seem to have played a role for two speakers, who stated that unplanned performance felt more natural and made the speaker less accountable for mistakes and sloppiness.
Only informal situations, ignorance, sheer sloppiness or an impish desire to take linguistic liberties might make us use forms that might otherwise not be regarded as acceptable.
We can only get away with this sloppiness because both "type errors" and "run-time errors" in type-level code manifest themselves at compile-time for the overall program.
