as in messily
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Adverb
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For the teenager in me who was messily figuring out her sexuality, Keisha and Justin would have been my fictional best friends.—
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
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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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“Untidily.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untidily. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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