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Untidily

Untidy \Un*ti"dy\, a.

  1. Unseasonable; untimely. [Obs.] ``Untidy tales.''
    --Piers Plowman.

  2. Not tidy or neat; slovenly. [1913 Webster] -- Un*ti"di*ly, adv. -- Un*ti"di*ness, n.

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untidily

adv. In an untidy manner.

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untidily

adv. in a messy, untidy manner; "Rossi spat very deliberately, and very messily, upon Durieux's party card" [syn: messily]

Usage examples of "untidily".

The white dots of searching MiGs were scattered across it like crumbs from a meal untidily eaten.

Her long, dark red hair tended to hang untidily in her eyes and annoy her, so she had pulled it back and secured it with a rubber band.

Her dark red hair hung untidily around her shoulders, and her bare feet were dirty.

Finally the eggs parted company together with the bacon and disappeared amazingly into the air, small portions of both dropping untidily to the tablecloth.

They were drinking wine and looking at a revolver, both of which objects Marion had brought along untidily wrapped in a towel.

His clothes never seemed to fit him and bagged loosely and untidily about his body.

Another man, Oriental, fat as a Buddha, sprawled untidily on a pile of cushions.

When it came he glanced at Emily, sitting back untidily in a too big armchair, and poured out two cups.

Only her face was visible, the rest was shrouded in wool, her hair spilling out untidily on to the pillows.

She tossed back her damp hair, hanging untidily round her damp face, rosy from the wind and rain.

It had a massive desk covered untidily with papers and folders, two or three comfortable chairs and heavy silk curtains at the windows.

He led the way into a large, grand room, its grandness made cosy by a tabby cat curled up on one of the enormous sofas, a tangle of knitting cast down untidily on a table and a pile of books and magazines on a sofa table.

It was in the small hours of the morning that Augusta was wakened by Tante Emma, wrapped untidily in a voluminous dressing gown and looking quite distraught.

She reached the yacht presently and heaved herself untidily on to its deck, streaming water and shivering a little now.

They stopped untidily and the man behind the wheel of the first car got out.