Definition of Messily

1. Adverb. In a messy, untidy manner. "Rossi spat very deliberately, and very messily, upon Durieux's party card"

Exact synonyms: Untidily
Partainyms: Messy, Untidy

Definition of Messily

1. Adverb. In a messy manner; sloppily, shoddily. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Messily

1. in a messy manner [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Messily

messets
messiahless
messiahlike
messiahs
messiahship
messiahships
messianic
messianically
messianism
messianisms
messias
messiases
messier
messiest
messieurs
messily (current term)
messiness
messinesses
messing
messless
messman
messmate
messmates
messmen
messuage
messuages
messy
mestanolone
mestee
mestees

Literary usage of Messily

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Future in America: A Search After Realities by Herbert George Wells (1907)
"... blind enlargement of London; London, that like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily and ..."

2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"These, however, I low and shelt.ed spots; but in this dreary waste messily, It will not be found practicable, we suspect, to rry the arts of civilised life ..."

3. Astronomical Papyri from Oxyrhynchus by Alexander Jones (1999)
"13: messily written and blurred. The scribe began Decius's reign one year too early, and crossed out the entire line on recognizing the error. 4152. ..."

4. Archaic Corinthian Pottery and the Anaploga Well by Darrell Arlynn Amyx, Patricia Lawrence (1975)
"Polychrome banding: wRw, rather messily applied, below the frieze and above the rays. Middle Corinthian. The style is peculiar and somewhat gross, ..."

5. Sweden: Achieving Results for Sustained Growth by Oecd, OECD. (2007)
"These gaps in regulatory policy and management may make it very hard for Sweden to launch and carry forward major reforms that messily involve a large ..."

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