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in a messy, untidy manner
Rossi spat very deliberately, and very messily, upon Durieux's party card
How To Use messily In A Sentence
- Once she'd gotten there in his presence, all her organized thoughts dissipated into a messily arranged array of emotions.
- But by the time it actually hit the screen in the autumn, the new media bubble had burst as messily as an over-inflated squirrel.
- Rodney was fighting futilely against them as his red hair fell messily into his terror-stricken green eyes.
- The movie makes sure we understand just how mundane the Queen is, showing her rising messily from a bed, sharing a quiet snark among friends, walking in her wellies and a scarf tied around her head — there’s no distant glory here, just a woman living a sometimes-difficult life. Oscar Nominee Roundup: The Queen and The Departed
- It is convenient for university students to borrow books from opening shelves to utilize documents and materials. But it is also becoming serious trouble of putting the books on the shelves messily.
- Lisa took out a form which she had clearly created because the line sloped and the ink had messily spread across the page because she had put the ruler on too early.
- The art ... the talent is all that matters to us, the public until our puffing up of said star's balloon bursts all loudly and messily when it touches the needle of human frailty. The Curious Case Of Michael Joseph Jackson
- Having heard a few of their recorded songs, I thought they would be well up to the task, but in this performance they plodded messily through what could have been an interesting and lively set.
- It's full of deciduous tress messily laying their leaves around.
- As I noted, this movie ends kind of messily, but it begins with a bang and keeps you hooked until the mess begins. Debbie Schlussel