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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
messy
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a messy divorce (=complicated and unpleasant to deal with)
▪ She wanted to avoid a messy divorce .
a messy eater (=someone who drops food and makes a mess when they eat)
▪ He's a very messy eater – he leaves crumbs all over the floor.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
business
▪ If they did, the whole messy business of recycling would be a great deal easier.
▪ Killing women was a messy business, so officials worked out a charade.
▪ I thought for a start it was because moving the dead body might have been a very messy business.
▪ Preseason hype, extrapolating last year into this year, tends to be a messy business.
▪ Goldmining is, by nature, a messy business.
▪ Neither party involved themselves in the messy business of seeking votes in the province, democracy wasn't mentioned.
▪ Divorce can be a messy business.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Mr Sarcasm/Mr Messy/Mr Forgetful etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Does my hair look messy?
▪ He only cleans up his room when it gets really messy.
▪ Mom yells if my room is messy.
▪ My desk isn't always this messy - I've been working on a major project.
▪ She felt uncomfortable in such a messy house.
▪ Their three-cheese pizza is excellent, but messy to eat.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Beyond the question of weight loss, olestra raises some messy health issues.
▪ But performance is poor, the steering light and lifeless, ergonomics messy and the gearbox jerky.
▪ For a messy person, Alvin had a wonderful planning mind.
▪ Killing women was a messy business, so officials worked out a charade.
▪ Parliamentary answers intended to explain the phenomenon left a messy impression.
▪ Quarrels were generally messy, involving hot tempers, grief, unpredictable actions, passion, outrage, betrayal.
▪ The Pentagon and its computers keep coming up with cleaner models of warfare, while the world gets messier.
▪ Their evidence was a bit messy, but it breathed new life into the debate.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
messy

1843, "untidy," from mess (n.) + -y (2). Figurative use ("unethical") by 1924. Related: Messily; messiness.

Wiktionary
messy

a. (context of a place, situation, person, etc English) In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.

WordNet
messy
  1. adj. dirty and disorderly; "a mussy fussy bedroom"; "a child's messy eating habits" [syn: mussy]

  2. [also: messiest, messier]

Wikipedia
Messy

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.