Crossword clues for messy
messy
- Out of order?
- Not at all in order
- Needing lots of napkins
- Littered, e.g
- Like sties
- Like many teenagers' rooms
- Like Buffalo wings, eating-wise
- Like an unmade bed
- Like a bad breakup
- In need of picking up
- Far from organized
- Difficult to reconcile
- All disheveled
- Very untidy
- Unlike Marie Kondo's home, presumably
- Ugly, as a divorce
- Reminiscent of a pigsty
- Rather inconvenient
- Not yet tidied
- Not simple to settle
- Not organized
- Not for neatniks
- Not easily resolved
- Not close to shipshape
- Not at all neat
- Needing to be picked up
- Needing a cleaning
- Littered with toys, say
- Like some dorm rooms and divorces
- Like pre-utensil babies
- Like Oscar of "The Odd Couple" or "Sesame Street"
- Like most divorces involving accusations of infidelity
- Like many a kid's room
- Like finger-paint
- Like finger painting
- Like contested divorces
- Like Buffalo wings and barbecued ribs
- Like acrimonious divorces
- Like a teenager's room
- Like a sty
- Like a stereotypical teenager's room
- Like a stereotypical teen's room
- Like a slob
- Like a melting ice cream sandwich
- Like a desk that's a sign of genius, it's said
- Like a cluttered room
- In need of straightening
- In need of grooming
- In need of cleanup
- Highly inconvenient
- Having lots of loose ends
- Hardly tidy
- Hardly neat
- Hard to sort out
- Far from well kept
- Far from shipshape
- Far from orderly
- Entirely untidy
- Emotionally complicated, as a breakup
- Distasteful to a neat freak
- Dirty, untidy
- Difficult to sort out
- Difficult to resolve
- Certainly not tidy
- Befitting a slob
- Topsy-turvy
- Cluttered up
- Unkempt
- Disheveled
- Rather awkward
- Chaotic, as a situation
- Not well-groomed
- Slovenly
- Neat's opposite
- Tangled, as a problem
- Not neat
- Disorganized
- Like some divorces
- Stylike
- Having entanglements
- Hard to resolve
- Unpleasantly difficult
- Hard to settle
- Fraught with complications
- Piglike
- Like dorm rooms, often
- Tough to sort out
- Poorly organized
- Sloppy
- Tough to resolve
- Embarrassing, as a situation
- Not tidy
- Sordid
- Like drawn-out divorces
- Like rats' nests
- Overly involved
- Convoluted
- Disordered
- Disorderly or untidy
- Untidy
- Like Junior's room, perhaps
- At sixes and sevens
- Complicated, as a divorce
- In disorder
- Like many a teen-ager's room
- Like Oscar Madison's room
- Piggish
- Like a teenager's room, stereotypically
- Unclean
- Not shipshape
- Untidy, dirty
- In disarray
- Needing straightening
- Not well-kept
- Like some breakups and dorm rooms
- Like many kids' rooms
- Extremely unpleasant
- Complicated, as a breakup
- Rancorous, as a divorce
- Needing neatening
- Like many dorm rooms
- Like many a dorm room
- Hard to clean up
- Difficult to straighten out
- Difficult to deal with
- Needing tidying
- Like Marvin
- Far from tidy
- Far from spiffy
- Quite unlike Felix Ungar
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1843, "untidy," from mess (n.) + -y (2). Figurative use ("unethical") by 1924. Related: Messily; messiness.
Wiktionary
a. (context of a place, situation, person, etc English) In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Messy may refer to:
- Harry Messy (19th century), Canadian ice hockey player
- Messy, Seine-et-Marne, France
- Messy Music, an electronic music group
- Mr. Messy, a fictional character
Usage examples of "messy".
Dominique Messier, bassist Marc Langis, and percussionist Paul Picard.
Being a Renaissance Soul does not indicate whether you are neat or messy, or whether you promptly file your taxes in early January or procrastinate well past April 15.
The floors had been thoroughly swept, and though faint traces of sawdust were visible in the rafters, on the windowsills, and along the top edges of the tool racks, this place was no typical messy woodshop.
During courses of larva steaks, yeasty bread smeared with spreadnuts, and a messy dessert of his favorite candied splurts, Reynald spoke, and everyone else listened.
In an uncustomary burst of thoughtfulness, Czarina had grown the flowers in her messy greenhouse and placed them in Wa- terfbrd vases in readiness for the grand party tonight.
Trees are a looked-forward-to treat here in Lancaster, too, what few of them there are being entirely imported, punctuating the landscape like domestic help just itching to escape to a better job: dry, scraggy poplars and messy, dandruffy cottonwoods.
Because John Dolittle, no matter how many messy little cans he had placed around the house, knew immediately if a single one were missing.
They used their knives and the globby yellow substance in the jar was soon messy, and full of bits of butter and pastry flakes.
My blue Hermes tie looked sort of aqua on camera, and my hair was a bit messy, but my expression was a lawyerly one of quiet optimism.
White flour flying everywhere, the kitchen looked a great deal messier than when Lexia had entered, but also a great deal more homey.
Besides, the political fallout of such a nepotistic veto would be awfully messy to clean up.
America is convinced that the parties are serious about peacemaking, or that conditions in the region are so hot that they have to be serious about it, then America should don the messy apron of a corner grocer in order to help the parties forge an agreement.
They have millions invested in the work of this messy printmaker, but his current output was flooding the art market.
That on occasion she doubtless has the same messy problems of blackheads, ingrowing toenails and sweaty armpits as the rest of us.
But the regular, day to day tending of the world is a messy business, more like the inspired chaos of a kitchen than the sterile precision of a chartroom, or study.