as in messiness
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Recent Examples of untidiness
United’s co-owner being on site led to a sweep of the open-plan offices to ensure no untidiness, especially that desks were clear of empty cups, believed to be a particular Ratcliffe peeve.
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Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for untidiness
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Live Translation, in aiming to fix all that messiness in an algorithm streamed through Bluetooth earbuds, is not opening human communication up so much as flattening it.—
Matteo Wong,
The Atlantic,
16 Oct. 2025
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The messiness is prompting some Democrats to call for the party to be more aggressive in influencing primaries, Politico reports.—
Eleanor Mueller,
semafor.com,
14 Oct. 2025
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And there was more sloppiness from the Bruins.—
Steve Conroy,
Boston Herald,
13 Oct. 2025
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Even as the offense moved the ball downfield, there was more sloppiness from Buffalo, which had a false start on the drive and two declined penalties on the decisive third down.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
6 Oct. 2025
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Within the mud, squalor and sickness of the contraband camps, so too came the casting away of the former body and an emergence of a fuller kind of selfhood.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Oct. 2025
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But even past that, Tactics is directly about how the rich and powerful view the poor and weak as almost subhuman, practically delighting in the squalor and suffering normal people go through.—
Hayes Madsen,
Rolling Stone,
24 Sep. 2025
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“Untidiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untidiness. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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