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Sloppy vs Scrawled - What's the difference?

sloppy | scrawled |

As adjectives the difference between sloppy and scrawled

is that sloppy is very wet; covered in or composed of slop while scrawled is having been written in a rapid and sloppy manner.

As a verb scrawled is

(scrawl).

sloppy

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Very wet; covered in or composed of slop.
    • The dog tracked sloppy mud through the kitchen!
  • Messy; not neat, elegant, or careful.
    • The carpenter did a sloppy job of building the staircase.
  • Imprecise or loose.
    • A sloppy''' measurement''; ''a '''sloppy fit!

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * sloppiness

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    scrawled

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having been written in a rapid and sloppy manner.
  • :The doctor's scrawled signature was almost unreadable.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (scrawl)
  • :He scrawled his signature on the receipt with quick disregard for legibility.