Example sentences for: sloppily

How can you use “sloppily” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When asked about his role as appropriations chairman in this year's sloppily assembled half-trillion dollar budget bill, he replied that he had said at the time, "This is ugly, but we have to pass it and get out of here and go get re-elected."

  • A more serious semantic problem is the ambiguity regarding paddle tennis and platform tennis . Here there is a yawning gulf of misunderstanding between the aficionados, who insist on a precise distinction, and the thousands on the fringes who sloppily apply the term paddle tennis to both sports.

  • The encyclopedic sizzle, packed into the back of the book, seems an (unfortunate) afterthought, imitative of a similarly constituted edition of the Collins English Dictionary , and quite sloppily put together at that.

  • If you must cross your legs, do it carefully, as a woman does who is wearing a short skirt, not sloppily, like a golfer at the 19 th hole.

  • Kutler's book, alas, is the most sloppily edited of the bunch.


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