sloppilyadv.
/ˈslɒpɪli/ In a sloppy or slovenly manner.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [adverb]
mawkishly1816
sentimentally1816
dissolvingly1822
sweetly1840
maudlinly1854
sloppily1898
slushily1961
soppily1977
soupily1979
the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > condition of being or making very wet > [adverb]
dropsically1785
sloppily1898
soddenly1901
soggily1975
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adverb] > without thoroughness or exactness
lightlyOE
overly1440
superficially1526
slovenly1548
glancingly1556
overrunningly1561
cursorily1565
perfunctorily1581
sloven-like1589
cursoriwise1598
perfunctoriously1609
slubberingly1622
cursitorily1628
skimmingly1847
unscrutinizingly1891
sloppily1898
1898 Daily News 11 Oct. 6/4 His broadly but not sloppily touched landscapes.
1909 Chambers's Jrnl. Sept. 572/2 The swish of the water licking sloppily against the yacht's side had a very lonesome sound.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) II. xv. 354 She regarded his play as mediocre claptrap..fit only for the unthinking, sloppily sentimental crowd.
1942 E. Paul Narrow Street xi. 83 In first class, one was slighted by the poverty-stricken employees, and served sloppily in the dining car, if any.
1953 S. Kauffmann Philanderer iii. 39 I've done it six summers now and its all a lot of crudney. Rush around and push shows together sloppily.
1979 Country Life 18 Jan. 134/3 The subject..is perilously near the sloppily mawkish.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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