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messy
[ mes-ee ]
adjective
- characterized by a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition:
a messy room.
- causing a mess:
a messy recipe; messy work.
- embarrassing, difficult, or unpleasant:
a messy political situation.
- characterized by moral or psychological confusion.
messy
/ ˈmɛsɪ /
adjective
- dirty, confused, or untidy
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Derived Forms
- ˈmessiness, noun
- ˈmessily, adverb
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Other Words From
- messi·ness noun
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Example Sentences
If you think divorce between two people is messy and traumatic, imagine divorcing yourself.
But there is a messy middle territory between demonization and idealization.
THE NEW YORK TIMES/JILL ABRAMSON DISASTER: It was messy enough when, on May 14, New York Times Co.
In another, they sit smiling inside their Los Angeles apartment at a messy kitchen table.
Their inevitable divorce was messy, bitter, and packed with bizarre occurrences.
I can't bear ugly, messy places; above all, messy, untidy places make me perfectly cross and miserable.'
There used to be a very messy, rocky desert here, and we used to have to scrabble and scratch our way to the monument.
There was something so messy about dish-washing, ordinary dish-washing; milk-pans were different.
Fishing seemed a messy business—an uncouth trade among uncouth men.
I did write out my translations on an extra paper first, for I didnt want to make any erasures and have a messy paper.
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