jumble
verb (used with object)
to mix in a confused mass; put or throw together without order.
jumbly
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a word derived from
jumble.
Example Sentences
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After two miles, we leave the wash to make our way up a jumbly ridge seemingly stitched together by the arthritic, extensive roots of dwarf juniper and pinyon trees.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2022
Poetic and practical and laid out in an agreeably jumbly zine style, “Shelter” was a world tour of vernacular habitats, as well as a social history of hippie housing that proposed a new world order.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2020
It doesn’t help that Vidra speaks in jumbly tech jargon that sets many journalists’ teeth on edge.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2014
A few years earlier, in the late 1950s, Lichtenstein was himself making brushy, rough and jumbly abstractions, but even then he never quite let go.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 18, 2013
‘Never is it nasty! Frobscottle is sweet and jumbly!’
From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl
