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词汇 sloppiness
释义 sloppiness
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈslɒp.i.nəs/ us /ˈslɑː.pi.nəs/

sloppinessnoun[U] (CARELESSNESS)


disapproving
a lack of care or effort: 懒散
The work has been criticized for sloppiness and errors.这功课因潦草和错漏百出而被批评。
There was a general sloppiness in the way the business was run.总得来说,这家公司的管理很松散。
There is no evidence of particular sloppiness by the airport security.
The chef saw so much sloppiness in the kitchen that he flew into one of his rages.
He passed the ball with an alarming sloppiness.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Not paying attention
absent
absent-minded
absent-mindedly
absent-mindedness
absently
drop/lower your guardidiom
escape someone's notice
faraway
glazed
gnat
like a bull in a china shopidiom
merrily
misfocus
moment
moony
sideline
unmindful
unwarily
unwary
zone out

sloppinessnoun[U] (LOOSENESS)


(of clothes) the quality of being untidy and too big or loose: 邋遢;衣着宽松不合身
The jacket seemed a bit big but I love its comfortable sloppiness.这件夹克看起来有点大,但我喜欢它舒适的宽松。
You may need to speak to her about the sloppiness of her appearance.你可能需要和她谈谈,外表不要弄得太邋遢。
While disapproving of the sloppiness of his clothes, she envied him his ease.
There's a funny sloppiness that occurs in many a mom's wardrobe.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Flexible, loose and yielding
adrift
bendable
bendy
ductile
ductility
flowing
jointed
lax
limply
limpness
pliantly
ragdoll
relax
rubbery
semi-flexible
uncompressed
unconstricted
unstayed
unstuck
yielding

sloppinessnoun[U] (WET)


informaldisapproving
the state of being too liquid, often in an unpleasant way: 过稀的状态
Serve with bread to scoop up all that delicious sloppiness.伴有面包,可将美味的稀汁抹个干净。
I forgot to mention the sloppiness of the chocolate pots. They were a mess.我忘了说罐子里的巧克力太稀了,乱糟糟的。
I add extra sauce, and the kids love the sloppiness of this dish.
The individual ingredients were lost in the overall sloppiness of the burger.
The problem was not really the food itself, but more the sloppiness of the food.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Physics: the state of matter
absorbency
acidic
allotropic
allotropy
compressible
crystalline
e-liquid
fluidity
impervious
melted
polyunsaturated
powdery
rarefy
reflective
rustily
rusty
scaly
self-healing
sloppily
sloppy

sloppinessnoun[U] (SILLY)


informaldisapproving
the quality of being silly or too emotional: 庸俗伤感
I think too much sloppiness on a first date can be claustrophobic.我认为第一次约会时表现得太庸俗伤感会让人产生挤迫感。
See
sloppy
He cast a look of such simpering sloppiness at his wife it would have made a cat sick.
There was none of the sentimental sloppiness about her that had been so noticeable before.
He didn't like my emotional sloppiness, even though he himself sometimes became sentimental.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Sentimental and over-emotional
cloying
cloyingly
gauzily
gushily
gushy
mawkishness
mush
mushily
mushy
sappiness
sentimental
sentimentalist
sentimentality
sick-making
sloppily
slushy
syrupy
treacly
twee
tweeness

sloppiness | American Dictionary


sloppiness
noun[ U ]
us/ˈslɑp·i·nəs/
the quality of being messy or done in a careless way:
Such remarkable sloppiness was the result of too much hurry.

Examples of sloppiness


sloppiness
Communities are the chief source of philosophical sloppiness these days.
These revelations cannot be separated from their larger context: widespread sloppiness and wrongdoing at criminal labs, including one lab shut down for criminal negligence.
A competent typist could key in the whole word in no time, and the abbreviations were considered the height of sloppiness.
The casual intellectual sloppiness of this remark suggests that justification of inspection reports is not a priority.
Unfortunately there is some sloppiness in the editing.
But first impressions can be misleading, and the initial suspicion of sloppiness soon gives way to admiration for the imagination displayed in this study.
The care and continuity with which the marriages were recorded, however, are in sharp contrast with the relative sloppiness shown in the registration of other vital events.
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.
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.
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.
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.
But a judicial background is a useful safeguard against the sloppiness which tends to characterise the decision taking of the executive in this country.
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Gentleman is a good judge of what constitutes sloppiness.
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My first complaint is about the intellectual sloppiness of much science reporting.
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There is not only secrecy and resistance to releasing information, but sloppiness.
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