untidily
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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In one, he holds a liter-size stoneware mug, foam spilling untidily over its rim; with the other, he’s carefully transferring a small, not entirely compliant child from a stroller to a long wooden bench.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 19, 2022
Gradually, after he was gone, the place had filled up untidily with her hobbies—oil painting for a while, then weaving, then the University of the Third Age.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 21, 2019
The “belt” of the B.R.I. refers to the Silk Road Economic Belt, a tangle of rail and highway routes currently vining their way untidily across the continent from eastern China to Scandinavia.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2019
And perhaps that is the crux of the authenticity conversation — Lynch’s Early was thoughtful and complicated and untidily vulnerable.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2017
The largest was unfinished and made from unplastered cement blocks with a tin roof, while two were just lean-to constructs of roofing sheets with nothing more, and the last an open, untidily thatched hut.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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