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as in messy
lacking in order, neatness, and often cleanliness
I can never find anything in this untidy office
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as in sloppy
lacking neatness in dress or person
neighbors gossiped about the woman's rumpled and untidy children
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Recent Examples of untidy
An early version of the best dessert in the house was a great-tasting but untidy wet block of orange cake the size of a solitaire deck with a ping-pong scoop of chocolate ice cream.
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Mike Sutter,
San Antonio Express-News,
25 Feb. 2026
Commoners’ untidy open fields are returning to contemporary agricultural practice.
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Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
Trusting our usual virtual background on Teams to mask an untidy living room or kitchen table from colleagues.
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Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
For those with untidy cleaning closets like myself, this nifty holder mounts to your wall and is designed with special grips to hold your go-to broom, tried-and-true mop, and more.
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Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
7 Oct. 2025
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Mike Sutter,
San Antonio Express-News,
25 Feb. 2026
Commoners’ untidy open fields are returning to contemporary agricultural practice.
—
Literary Hub,
19 Feb. 2026
Trusting our usual virtual background on Teams to mask an untidy living room or kitchen table from colleagues.
—
Zak Doffman,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
For those with untidy cleaning closets like myself, this nifty holder mounts to your wall and is designed with special grips to hold your go-to broom, tried-and-true mop, and more.
—
Alicia Geigel,
Southern Living,
7 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for untidy
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Interviews for the statewide candidates are done now via questions from the entire convention, a potentially messier proposition.
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More vehicles on the road means more potential for complex, multi-vehicle collisions and messier disputes over who caused what.
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Winning like a Feeney Due to some sloppy defensive errors from the silver-haired infield, the Feeneys allowed more runs in the top of the seventh.
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The Walpole, Massachusetts native, making his second career start at Fenway Park in front of family and friends, surrendered a two-run, go-ahead homer to ex-Yankees prospect Caleb Durbin in the fifth inning of what was a sloppy, 6-3, loss for the Bombers.
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By building circuits whose states naturally fluctuate with this environmental heat, thermodynamic computing turns an otherwise stochastic and chaotic feature of nature into an incredibly fast, ultra-low-energy calculator.
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The combat that follows is intimate, chaotic, and bloody.
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The historic property has been vacant and unkempt since 2015.
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Keep It Clean An unkempt shower curtain can make your bathroom appear dingy.
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In the past, her songs were so littered with personal details that listening felt voyeuristic.
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The series does not touch on the tabloid attention that followed the Beckhams in 2004, when it was alleged that David had an affair with his personal assistant, Rebecca Loos, and the many further accusations of cheating that littered gossip columns after.
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Participants with wet but non-wrinkled fingers required significantly more force to maintain the same hold; their hands were working harder to do less.
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Yellowing leaves can indicate overwatering, while wrinkled leaves can point to underwatering.
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Diane Lane in that movie has this almost common, cluttered, lived-in kitchen.
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Its advanced traction control and adaptive gait algorithms enable secure movement across slippery, loose, or shifting surfaces, including gravel, sand, wet metal grating, and cluttered factory floors.
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When Jon Brion would perform at Largo in Los Angeles, the enthrallment of his show entailed watching the shaggy-haired guy play myriad instruments, sampling and looping them into a climactic song.
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That charming and shaggy approach is fitting for such a campy and irreverent comedy, ultimately substituting polish for an equal mixture of artistic grit and careless joy.
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“Untidy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untidy. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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