mingle-mangle
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of mingle-mangle
Example Sentences
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I tried it, but I always seemed to revert to excess: one big mingle-mangle, everybody in the pool.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2022
The mingle-mangle of scarcely connected incidents which did duty with Greene for a plot, the irrepressible by-play with which Lyly loved to interrupt his main story, were rejected by him.
From The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne
I pray you make no mingle-mangle of things that do so differ in themselves, though ’tis true they come all of one source—the union and the unity of Christ and the believer.”
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
The consequence is, that many passages in these sermons are what Latimer would call a "mingle-mangle," or what we should call in this day "a complete mess."
From A Sketch of the Life and Labors of George Whitefield by John Charles Ryle
So that the Essay is written with a stimulating mingle-mangle of attraction and reluctance, of advocacy and admission.
From Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury
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