messiness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for messiness
Noun
  • Similarly, homeowners who enjoy entertaining might prioritize a scullery or prep kitchen/pantry to keep the party mess out of view.
    Elizabeth Hutchison Hicklin, Southern Living, 26 June 2025
  • In the wacky political world of Southeast Los Angeles County — where scandals seem to bloom every year with the regularity of jacarandas — there’s never been a mess as pendejo as the one stirred up this week by Cudahy Vice Mayor Cynthia Gonzalez.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • And there was a lot of chaos on the court as the Warriors were celebrating on foreign turf and the media was scrambling to figure out where the most advantageous spots were for postgame coverage.
    Zach Harper, New York Times, 18 June 2025
  • The Supercharger network has grown since then, though not without a period of chaos for the automaker and the entire car industry that bet on it.
    Patrick George, The Atlantic, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • In jumbles of old stones that, to me, are barely legible as the remains of buildings, Cocon López could see the entire timeline of old Aké and how later people interacted with and repurposed what came before.
    Lizzie Wade, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2025
  • Instead, voters themselves are jumbles of competing and sometimes contradictory interests.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The narrow streets bend, wrap back on themselves, and otherwise create directional havoc.
    Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 24 June 2025
  • The consent decree clears a major hurdle for the Omnicom-IPG deal, with the companies seeking to merge as artificial intelligence prepares to wreck havoc across the industry.
    Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • For potential patients, this information overload—and the social baggage that comes with it—often creates more confusion than clarity.
    Christy Saia-Owenby, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • The pressure comes as confusion swirls around whether President Trump will exempt some businesses from efforts to arrest and deport immigrants living illegally in the United States.
    Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • There’s more pressing current affairs to attend to right now, and hell, there’s a new Lorde album to bop to.
    Savannah Salazar, Vulture, 27 June 2025
  • Season two saw Valerie cast in an HBO project about the sitcom writer who made her life hell in season one, earning widespread acclaim professionally even as her personal life was falling apart.
    Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2025
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“Messiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/messiness. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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