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sloppiness

Noun

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The quality or state of being sloppy; muddiness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions; but if you are just a little sloppy, then when you see something startling, (...) you nail it down (...). So I called it the "Principle of Limited Sloppiness." Max Delbrück

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. William Safire

It was a glaring omission, a sign of cosmic sloppiness. Not even that, Vasko corrected himself. It was a sign of cosmic obliviousness. The universe didn't know what was happening here. It didn't know and it didn't care. It didn't even know that it didn't know. Alastair Reynolds

From where I sit I see the digital cinema creating sloppiness on the part of filmmakers because they know if they really get in trouble they can fix it later. So they don't pay that much attention, and of course it costs a lot of money. Robert Zemeckis

the baseball game was canceled because of the wateriness of the outfield Source: Internet

the water's muddiness made it undrinkable Source: Internet

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