messy
characterized by a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: a messy room.
causing a mess: a messy recipe; messy work.
embarrassing, difficult, or unpleasant: a messy political situation.
characterized by moral or psychological confusion.
Origin of messy
1Other words from messy
- mess·i·ness, noun
Words Nearby messy
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How to use messy in a sentence
It was clear that Apple’s antiquated App Store rules needed an update, but now that we see their solution, it’s clear that things are going to be very messy for platform operators and game developers that were hoping for an easy solution.
Apple lays out its messy vision for how xCloud and Stadia will work with its App Store rules | Lucas Matney | September 11, 2020 | TechCrunchThese soft, elegant towels can go up against even the messiest food spills.
What you usually get is messy, frustratingly slow progress, and self-doubt about your own voice and skills.
Book recommendations from Fortune’s 40 under 40 in government and policy | Rachel King | September 10, 2020 | FortuneThe formula for these points was quite messy, but if you’d like to see it nevertheless, check out the write-ups of Laurent Lessard, who found a condition on these values, and David Zimmerman, who attempted to find a closed-form solution.
The battle to secure as many vaccine doses as possible, once approved, could prove an even messier fight given that a limited number of companies are trying to address the problems of the entire world.
The COVID vaccine arms race and the struggles of the supply chain | Sy Mukherjee | August 20, 2020 | Fortune
If you think divorce between two people is messy and traumatic, imagine divorcing yourself.
Why Singles Should Say ‘I Don’t’ to The Self-Marriage Movement | Tim Teeman | December 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut there is a messy middle territory between demonization and idealization.
THE NEW YORK TIMES/JILL ABRAMSON DISASTER: It was messy enough when, on May 14, New York Times Co.
In another, they sit smiling inside their Los Angeles apartment at a messy kitchen table.
‘All Good Cretins Go to Heaven’: Dee Dee Ramone’s Twisted Punk Paintings | Melissa Leon | December 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTheir inevitable divorce was messy, bitter, and packed with bizarre occurrences.
Borges Had A Genius For Literature But Not Love Or Much Else | Allen Barra | October 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI can't bear ugly, messy places; above all, messy, untidy places make me perfectly cross and miserable.'
Robin Redbreast | Mary Louisa MolesworthThere used to be a very messy, rocky desert here, and we used to have to scrabble and scratch our way to the monument.
The Colors of Space | Marion Zimmer BradleyThere was something so messy about dish-washing, ordinary dish-washing; milk-pans were different.
The Camerons of Highboro | Beth B. GilchristFishing seemed a messy business—an uncouth trade among uncouth men.
The Viking Blood | Frederick William WallaceI did write out my translations on an extra paper first, for I didnt want to make any erasures and have a messy paper.
Betty Lee, Freshman | David Goodger (goodger@python.org)
British Dictionary definitions for messy
/ (ˈmɛsɪ) /
dirty, confused, or untidy
Derived forms of messy
- messily, adverb
- messiness, noun
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