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Recent Examples of untidiness
These conspicuous little signs of untidiness take mere seconds to clean up and can be the secret to a home that somehow always looks pristine, even if just at first glance.
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Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2026
Bills are being paid late, the practice is a frightening level of untidiness, there’s a miniature horse in the study, and Siegfried is passed out on the sofa with some loose woman under a trench coat beside him.
—Alice Burton, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
Despite no Premier League goals and a general untidiness to his work, his manager sees his potential.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2025
Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2026
Bills are being paid late, the practice is a frightening level of untidiness, there’s a miniature horse in the study, and Siegfried is passed out on the sofa with some loose woman under a trench coat beside him.
—Alice Burton, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
Despite no Premier League goals and a general untidiness to his work, his manager sees his potential.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for untidiness
Noun
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For whatever reason, that messiness is what audiences prefer this year.—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
12 Mar. 2026
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Its messiness is also in step with 2020s hyperpop—scruffy, topsy-turvy electronic music that seeks to harness, not counteract, modern overstimulation.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
11 Mar. 2026
Noun
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He has been criticised over sloppiness in previous games but was solid at the back and impressive with his passing to break Valencia’s lines.—
Mario Cortegana,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Rather, most everyone on coach Dennis Gates’ active roster for the game had a hand in the sloppiness.—
The Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
7 Feb. 2026
Noun
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After its seemingly benign opening, the movie captures the appalling conditions under which the inmates are kept, with unblinking scenes of bullying, force feeding, strip searches and squalor.—
Chloe Veltman,
NPR,
16 Feb. 2026
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Many came from grinding poverty and squalor.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Untidiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untidiness. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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