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