Sentence examples for sloppy words from inspiring English sources

Never use sloppy words such as supply, problem, accommodate and interesting and try to use concrete not abstract nouns.

But whatever his sloppy words about the Führer back in the 1970's, his statements about governance in general were more revealing and more to the point of his campaign.

Sloppy wording, at best; sloppy thinking, otherwise.

The "it" being get sloppy, word-slurring drunk in an unvetted crowd.

"Iconic" is a hot sloppy word in heavy rotation in the scripts of mid-range TV presenters.

Still more instructive are his insightful commentaries, peppered throughout, on the work of the masters he reveres — above all his mentor, Oscar Hammerstein II — and those he criticizes for their imperfections of style or sloppy word placement.

Mr. London said that, as the judge noted, the prosecutors may not have intended to have the jurors ignore the communications, but the "sloppy wording" of the instructions they presented the grand jury left them confused.

Parallel to what we argue in this paper of labeling taxa as 'lower' or 'higher', "Considering clades or taxa as 'basal' is not only sloppy wording, but shows misunderstanding of the tree and may have severe semantic and argumentative implications" (Krell and Cranston 2004, p. 280).

But that doesn't mean it's perfect, and just as we have ended up kicking ourselves for sloppy wording and a lack of foresight in parts of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it might be better to take a moment to get it right the first time.

I imagine the mayor feels that holding the marathon on the set day sends some kind of message that New York is tough, determined, resolute and 'resilient.' (If I never hear that word again it will not be soon enough, given how many local anchors and pols have utilized it in a sloppy word fest designed to obfuscate the actual pain and horror so many people are presently experiencing).

If there is a word that should be retired from use in the service of women's expression, health, well-being, and equality, it is appropriate a sloppy, mushy word that purports to convey some important moral essence but in reality is just a policing term used to regulate our language, appearance, and demands.