as in messy
lacking in order, neatness, and often cleanliness
is there any wonder that you can never find anything in your littered desk?
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Recent Examples of littered
Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2025
Verb
Cigarette butts are the most littered item on the planet.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for littered
Adjective
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Depending on how things shake out in court, representation could get messy for west Charlotte’s City Council District 3.—
Nick Sullivan,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Sep. 2025
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And that the wig was messy, but cute.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
6 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Currently, only 37% of the more than 5 million tons of trash generated in the county each year is recycled — and even that is hampered by a 40% contamination rate.—
Ashley Miznazi,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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If he had been sold for between £10m and £20m, that alone would have generated significantly more PSR headroom.—
Beren Cross,
New York Times,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This is a young and talented group with tremendous upside under a defensive coordinator who thrives off chaotic defensive lines.—
Jason Lloyd,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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But everything about this first half offensively — save for one TD pass to Sutton — has felt unorganized and ineffective and chaotic.—
Joe Nguyen,
Denver Post,
7 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Anhedönia’s earliest exposure to contemporary culture came in the form of the true-crime serials her grandmother loved, which kindled her own interest in the macabre.—
Holden Seidlitz,
New Yorker,
10 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Through a succession of job changes, a don’t-open-the-mail approach to bill paying, abrupt moves to and from a string of increasingly cluttered abodes, Uhle recounts with humor and remarkable detail the unstable circumstances of her youth.—
Kristen Kidd,
Denver Post,
30 Aug. 2025
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In May 2012, the site was cluttered with tractors and rusting farm equipment.—
Daniel Lempres,
Sacbee.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The history of trade associations in the United States is deeply connected to the evolution of American business, especially intertwined with the impact of an industrializing economy and the array of regulations those industries spawned.—
Eric Reicin,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Survivor’s debut in 2000 marked a turning point in reality television innovation; afterward, many copycats spawned, inspired by the complexity of the gameplay.—
Hannah Berman
August 27,
Literary Hub,
27 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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But a patchwork of injunctions that have yet to reach the justices remain in place, creating a jumbled situation that keeps reductions at specific agencies on ice.—
Rebecca Beitsch,
The Hill,
9 July 2025
Adjective
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Away from a filthy Superdome and Convention Center where they had been holed up for days.—
Suzette Hackney,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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Alexander pulled out a baby-blue melodica to lay down a filthy ska rhythm for his band.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Sep. 2025
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“Littered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/littered. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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