as in untidily
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Recent Examples of messily
For the teenager in me who was messily figuring out her sexuality, Keisha and Justin would have been my fictional best friends.
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Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 22 Dec. 2025
The action, messily blocked and shot, is cartoony in an exhausting way.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Nov. 2025
Their networks have succeeded in connecting the world and have become so massive and so messily human that AI slop created by the proprietary LLMs fills a need.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 22 Dec. 2025
The action, messily blocked and shot, is cartoony in an exhausting way.
—Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 12 Nov. 2025
Their networks have succeeded in connecting the world and have become so massive and so messily human that AI slop created by the proprietary LLMs fills a need.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for messily
chaotically
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Arranging and gluing down souvenirs, photos and stickers into chaotically colorful spreads?—
Jennifer Liu,
CNBC,
21 Dec. 2025
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Reuters — Lionel Messi’s tour of India kicked off chaotically on Saturday as fans threw objects, ripped up seats and invaded the pitch at Kolkata’s Salt Lake stadium after the Argentine soccer great made only a brief appearance at a ticketed event.—
Reuters 23 hr ago,
CNN Money,
14 Dec. 2025
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“Messily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/messily. Accessed 18 Jan. 2026.
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