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Sort of speech perhaps too sloppy (10)

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I believe the answer is:

apostrophe

'sort of speech' is the definition.
(apostrophe can mean an spoken address to a person)

'perhaps too sloppy' is the wordplay.
'sloppy' is an anagram indicator.
'perhaps'+'too'='perhapstoo'
'perhapstoo' anagrammed gives 'APOSTROPHE'.

(Other definitions for apostrophe that I've seen before include "It may be superfluous on tradesman's sign" , "in Charley's Aunt ?" , "rhetorical digression" , "Single quote mark" , "Where character may be absent" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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