messily
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of messily
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What to know: Two couples’ lives are messily intertwined when one—a wealthy woman with an even wealthier husband—taps the other—a laid-off laborer and his wife—to be the subjects of a documentary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
And by the next year, the two lovebirds had been happily married and messily divorced.
From Salon ● May 5, 2025
That storyline blurs into a messily amusing cacophony, only serving as a springboard for Petey’s redemption.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2025
Cryptic, uncapitalized, and without a whisper of bedside manner, the messily typed diagnosis was grim: “You have e coli … i hope you didn’t go to italy … we need to txt with antibiotics.”
From Slate ● Jan. 2, 2025
Kochu Maria sawed up the rest of the cake messily, laboriously, breathing through her mouth, as though she was carving a hunk of roast lamb.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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