Sloppery
"Sloppery" in a Sentence (22 examples)
The roads will be a bit sloppery, but Dobbin isn't too old to splash through them at a rattling pace.
Thanks to the discipline of daily habit, my hands and jaws performed their accustomed tasks, but my mind was in a condition alternately comatose and chaotic, so much so that it was a matter of surprise to me when I found my eyes resting on the bones of my sole and the sloppery trail of a departed omelette.
When, pressures be to our hoary frother, the pop gave his sullen bulletaction and, bilge, sled a movement of catharic emulsipotion down the sloppery slide of a slaunty to tilted liftyelandsmen.
Sendak describes the "slippery, sloppery, curvy, altogether delicious Art Deco palazzos [that] invited you to slide and bump along, in and out of flaming colored mazes [. . .], and past grand, even apocalyptic, oceans and skies."
'Could you take a message for him, please?' he said in Trevor Dann's distinctive Midlands tones. 'Could you tell him I think he's a big load of sloppery old bollocks.'
The investigator was expected to determine whether the place was "run sloppery, was it a messy looking place or not ..." and also if the premises were reasonably safe.
And clearly the sailor suit could not trace its true home to a country like ours, which goes in for a widespread concept of uniform usage best described as "sloppery."
She abandoned the breakfast nook to its sloppery ten seconds later and accepted Horvil's multi request.
Extremes, they say, are prone to meet ; thus, while Yachting is, in matter of practical usage and etiquette, the most ultra exclusive of all our National Sports — presto, it has become the machinery for retail sloppery in the hire of pleasure boats.
Were our modern instrumental sloppery conceivable, had they really grasped the most essential thing in Beethoven's tone-poems?
The next question is where the winfall is going. Partly to profits at various levels, e.g. higher wages for the miners, partly to sloppery.
This was just — Sloppery. The humbug of the woe-of-the-world business filled her with scorn.
Their most cherished ambition thereafter is a swift, exciting falling-in-love, a rapid courtship, a sackful of sentimental sloppery and then, then marriage.
We must not allow ourselves to get into that kind of mood again, mutual self-pitying is no more admirable than self-pitying as a sole indulgence of that disgusting form of sentimental sloppery.
Her husband and her elder sons were talkers and humbugs and Rebecca did not believe either in Sloppery or street-corner eloquence.
Stews out of all such piddling sloppery, Starvation gruel.
One day, it is in February, 1731, as I compute, they are sitting, her Sonsfeld and she, at their sad mess of so-called dinner, in their remote uppoer story of the Berlin Schloss, tramp of sentries the one thing audible; and were "looking mournfully at one another, with nothing to eat but a soup of salt and water, and a ragout of old bones full of hairs and slopperies [nothing else; that was its real quality, whatever fine name they might give it, says the vehement Princess], we heard a sharp tapping at the window; and started up in surprise, to see what it could be.
I think anybody who experiences some of the western sloppery with pleasure would enjoy a horsetail in their soup.
So he jess goes an' sends one on 'em off to England an' 'tother to the south on a two year mishonerry trip, 'an then he comes along 'an claps his cock-eyed sign on the shebang 'an now it's: “All Saints Holy Zion's Co-operative distillery'” or sloppery, wichever ye like.
I suppose Ulleeze is matronly now; but character does not change and were it not for the previously-acknowledged, deadly insidiousness of the stuff, I could not imagine her, even corpulent and with offspring in tow, as guzzling Nut Strawberry Perfection in a sloppery.
It is a sloppery; a costume that never ought to be seen out of the precincts of a stable-yard.
From top to bottom the parsonage was a model of primness and cleanly discomfort, angular, empty, white and cold, with that eternal smell of polish and soap and ubiquitously slippery sloppery in which the soul of the Dutch housewife delights.
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