When meeting women, being sloppy means getting shot down.
He would worry frequently that his subordinates were slacking off and the work was becoming sloppy.
Inside the saltpan, the land surface is uneven. Areas shaped like sloppy teardrops rise above the surrounding plain.
Our unprecedented financial bailout and sloppy political rollbacks reflect a pervasive habit of mind in contemporary culture that demands another shot.
Little Soldier blew a sloppy raspberry (of thanks, most likely), her pudgy hands flailing and groping and finally managing to curl around a soft tuft of her father's hair, holding to it tightly.
I can't decipher his sloppy handwriting.
When your clothes look sloppy, so do you.
The damage that America's diplomatic service has suffered is partly the result of sloppy practices.
The "lapsed listener" problem can be caused by carelessness at the design level: not adequately considering the lifetimes of the objects involved or simply by sloppy coding.
"You are so sloppy!" she chided.
Only his sloppy communication failed to undeceive them in time.
Fitting was a matter of continuous checking and swift, soft planing; only one stroke of a plane, he would say, separated a perfect drawer from a sloppy one.
You don't see any of this from two or three feet away, and it's clear Mondrian expected his viewers to stand back so they wouldn't see things like the sloppy way he truncated the ends of his stripes.
He castigated the secretaries for their sloppy job of filing.
The many critics of positive psychology are unlikely to be swayed by this book, particularly given its tone, by turns cheesy and hubristic, and its sloppy editing.
Luckily, the average cracker is sloppy.
A darkroom can become a very sloppy place to work in.
Thumbnail sketching is quick and perhaps even somewhat sloppy.
The Armani line was at first noted for loose, smart-casual blazers that provided a refreshing alternative to both the stiff, formal suits and the sloppy, laid-back hippie style of the previous decade.
Actually, I think it is sloppy and childish; but I also think that, if it were only this instance, it could be looked on as a blind spot.
She is not that sloppy.
But the mind is sloppy and will settle for good enough.
Ultimately, sloppy programming -- even if you achieve the desired result -- is going to result in sloppy performance.
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