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Definition of Topsy-turvyness

1. Noun. A state of extreme confusion and disorder.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Topsy-turvyness

Literary usage of Topsy-turvyness

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

1. Our Journey Around the World: An Illustrated Record of a Year's Travel of by Francis Edward Clark, Harriet Elizabeth Clark (1895)
"... Uncertain Rain and Certain Drought — Australian Oddities — Confused Trees — Topsy-Turvyness — Preconceived Notions — The Englishman the World Over — The ..."

2. Bushido, the Soul of Japan: An Exposition of Japanese Thought by Inazō Nitobe (1905)
"... superficial writers on Japan have dismissed it by simply attributing it to the general topsy- turvyness of the nation. Every foreigner who has observed ..."

3. A History of American Literature Since 1870 by Fred Lewis Pattee (1915)
"In all of them the art consists in perfect naturalness, in an exquisite simplicity of style, and in topsy-turvyness made within short compass completely ..."

4. Bushido, the Soul of Japan: An Exposition of Japanese Thought by Inazō Nitobe (1905)
"... superficial writers on Japan have dismissed it by simply attributing it to the general topsy- turvyness of the nation. Every foreigner who has observed ..."

5. Corrected Impressions: Essays on Victorian Writers by George Saintsbury (1895)
"... and in addition resent not merely the extraordinary topsy-turvyness and the sharp limits of his power of delineation of character, but also that quality ..."

6. The Land of Contrasts: A Briton's View of His American Kin by James Fullarton Muirhead (1898)
"... itself with the problem, he saw the topsy-turvyness of this arrangement. Hence in his ferry-boats there are no ..."

7. Primitive Love and Love-stories by Henry Theophilus Finck (1899)
"But for this topsy-turvyness, this folly, this immorality, we must not blame love, but those who ..."

8. Sir Edward Carson and the Ulster Movement by St. John Greer Ervine (1916)
"The Englishman might almost be pardoned for ascribing the choice of Sir Edward as leader of the Ulster Unionists to the general topsy-turvyness of Irish ..."

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