messed around

past tense of mess around
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as in flirted
to show a sexual attraction for someone just for fun a guy who goes to the health club mainly to mess around with the women

Synonyms & Similar Words

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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for messed around
Verb
  • And Georgia appears to have played its hand right.
    Jillian Magtoto, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2025
  • All of those games were played in Little Rock.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Earlier that month, Lopez went to Egypt and flirted with wearing even higher heels.
    Starr Bowenbank, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Trump, after all, flirted with bombing cartel fentanyl labs in Mexico during his first term.
    Daniel R. DePetris, Mercury News, 30 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The information could include flight logs, names associated with criminal activities, civil settlements, immunity or plea agreements.
    Bart Jansen, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The warning forecasts sustained surface winds, or frequent gusts, in the range of 34 knots (39 mph) to 47 knots (54 mph), either predicted or occurring, and not directly associated with a tropical cyclone, the NWS glossary explains.
    Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The season’s most important series, once again When the New York Yankees travelled to Toronto for Canada Day, the four games sat as the biggest series of the season to that point.
    Mitch Bannon, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The district attorney’s office said McNulty had traveled to or lived in the Philippines, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska and Virginia.
    Christine Pelisek, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Surround it with pumpkins, fashion it in front of a garland strand, or place it on a velvet table running across the manteltop to tie the whole look together.
    Mariana Best, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This look is perfect for landing in a style-conscious city like Paris or Chicago and hitting the ground running without needing a quick change in the airport bathroom.
    Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Watts said the child welfare agency also will maintain collaboration with public health officials, law enforcement and treatment providers to prevent tragedies connected to fentanyl and other drugs.
    Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Hope in Dave Canales, the second-year head coach whose optimism-springs-eternal approach has this team feeling connected.
    Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 7 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Peralta leaders had kicked around the idea for years but avoided discussing it in concrete terms, with bureaucratic tangles often getting in the way.
    Shomik Mukherjee, Mercury News, 23 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Ruisz and Durkin hooked up again on a 51-yard TD pass midway through the second quarter as the Eagles built a 28-0 halftime lead on the way to avenging last season’s 42-27 loss to the Thunderbolts and giving Murphy a win in his debut as Sandburg’s head coach.
    Steve Millar, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
  • For decades, scientists have chased a mystery about how proteins’ building blocks first hooked up with RNA, the molecule carrying life’s code.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Messed around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/messed%20around. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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