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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Directed and steered by Alex Timbers, with Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg among its executive producers, The Muppet Show keeps things chaotically simple.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Feb. 2026
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The downstairs staffs of the richest and noblest families start to shuffle around so chaotically that even Lady Whistledown takes notice of in her column.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
29 Jan. 2026
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“Messily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/messily. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.
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