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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

马虎

Pronunciation / Transliteration: mǎhǔ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Sloppiness/ˈslɒp.i.nəs/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #14500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这份报告因为太马虎而被退回了。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    Quality of being careless, untidy, or lacking neatness.

    "The report was rejected due to its obvious sloppiness and numerous factual errors."
  2. 2

    State of being overly wet, slushy, or muddy.

    "They had to navigate the sloppiness of the melting snow on the trail."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the adjective 'sloppy', which stems from 'slop' (meaning muddy or wet waste, dating from the late 15th century). The suffix '-ness' is of Old English origin, added to form abstract nouns denoting a state or quality.

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