messily
adverb
uk/ˈmes.əl.i/us/ˈmes.əl.i/messilyadverb(UNTIDILY)
in a way that isuntidyorproducesdirtanduntidiness:
凌乱地，杂乱地Hewrotemessily with afountainpen.他用钢笔乱写一通。
Hisflatmateeatsmessily andlistenstoloudmusic.他的室友吃得乱七八糟，听着嘈杂的音乐。
- Along thewallswereshelvescrammedmessily withstethoscopes, hypodermics, speculums.
- Heflickedhiscigaretteashrathermessily towards thewastebin, there being noashtray.
- Thestewsloshesmessily into mybowl.
Dirty & untidy
- -stained
- all over the placeidiom
- Augean
- bedraggled
- besmeared
- bespattered
- bloodied
- insalubrious
- insanitary
- look like something the cat brought/dragged inidiom
- mangy
- manky
- messy
- mucky
- polluted
- sordid
- sordidly
- sordidness
- squalid
- straggly
messilyadverb(SITUATION)
in aconfusedorawkwardway:
Theseriesstartsmessily but getsbetterafter acoupleofepisodes.
Thesituationbecamemessilycomplicatedwhen he went back to hiswife.
- Hisprivatelifewasdeeplyand messilyunhappy.
- In anoverheatedmarketlike that, no one should besurprisedwhen itendsmessily.
Complexity
- advanced
- all-singing
- baroque
- be more tosomethingthan meets the eyeidiom
- bleeding-edge
- delicacy
- finicky
- high-tech
- indirectly
- insolubility
- intractability
- onerousness
- ornate
- ornately
- over-elaborate
- over-fussy
- tortuously
- tortuousness
- ultra-sophisticated
- wheels within wheelsidiom
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