Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Sloping; inclined; oblique.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Sloping; inclined.

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  • adjective sloping

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Examples

  • Redid a 5.9 on the slab, got farther than before on a balancy stretchy slopy misrated 5.8 (it's a 5. 9+ or I'm a monkey), and got one move farther on my 5.10 - project.

    In which our heroine begs for death. ashacat 2009

  • I also got a new 5.8 last week, which I repeated yesterday, and this time I managed to figure out a repeatable way to do it rather than clinging to a slopy crimper with my aching fingertips and scrabbling up to the next hold on tiny skiddy footholds before I popped off.

    mama says you gotta go to the baptist fashion show standuponit 2009

  • That immensely reduces the “cost” and trouble of replication and would be a little deterrent to slopy work.

    Goodstein of Caltech on Misconduct « Climate Audit 2006

  • Hogglestock was not placed on a green slopy bank of land, retired from the road, with its windows opening on to a lawn, surrounded by shrubs, with a view of the small church tower seen through them; it had none of that beauty which is so common to the cosy houses of our spiritual pastors in the agricultural parts of England.

    Framley Parsonage 2004

  • With the use of this method, a slopy cogonal-talahib area with growth density ranging from 60100 clusters/sq.

    Chapter 14 1992

  • The upland rice, which will be eventually replaced even as the coffee seedlings are planted, and the pineapple crops which will replace it keep the soil in between the coffee (usually grown on slopy land) covered and protected from erosion But, more importantly, along with the interplantings of papaya, it brings in income even in the first few years when the coffee is still getting established and too young to bear fruit.

    1. Multistoried Sequential Cropping: The Cavite Model 1992

  • Traditionally, square shoulders were regarded as unbecoming for girls, so my shoulders were bound tightly to make them grow into the required slopy shape.

    Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991

  • Traditionally, square shoulders were regarded as unbecoming for girls, so my shoulders were bound tightly to make them grow into the required slopy shape.

    Wild Swans Jung Chang 1991

  • Devons 'wake, passing their wounded across that slopy field of veldt, and the flat to the base of the hill, it was a sweating, breathless climb up; the men were already cheering on the top above my head.

    Impressions of a War Correspondent George Lynch

  • This fatidic day, September 13th, 1759, had its sequel, eight months later, on St. Foye's slopy grounds.

    Quebec Old and New 1944

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  • How do we correct the example references here? E.g.:

    That immensely reduces the “cost” and trouble of replication and would be a little deterrent to slopy work.

    Goodstein of Caltech on Misconduct « Climate Audit

    That should be Sloppy, not slopy. The meaning is wrong. In that reference it's not at all about incline, it's about poor quality.

    May 8, 2022