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Untidiness

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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untidiness

n. The quality of being untidy

WordNet
untidiness
  1. n. the condition of being untidy [ant: tidiness]

  2. the trait of being untidy and messy [syn: messiness] [ant: tidiness]

Usage examples of "untidiness".

That was a positive thought to take home with her, to the empty flat which showed by its untidiness that Matty had packed up and left in a hurry.

And when, with determination, she turned her back on the untidiness and went upstairs to bed, she could not sleep.

I could not let him think that dirt and untidiness was agreeable to me, or that my skin was any harder than his own, so I told him the whole story, and shewed him what I had done.

And, moving across to Versailles Villa, here is Mrs Dubash with her shrine to the god Ganesh, stuck in the corner of an apartment of such supernatural untidiness that, in our house, the word 'dubash' became a verb meaning 'to make a mess'… 'Oh, Saleem, you've dubashed your room again, you black man!

I will not labor this point, since we are simply applying an old rule to a new field, but there is no more excuse here than elsewhere for split infinitives, dangling participles, and similar untidiness, or for obscurity and doubletalk.

That she had not played defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers, said one of the agents outside her hearing, was that she probably didn't like the untidiness of the locker rooms.

He dusts off the chair with his sleeve and apologizes several times for the untidiness of the cabin.