How To Use Untidy In A Sentence

Just imagine if the pages of this book, instead of being bound together in numerical order, were delivered to you as an untidy pile.
Eventually he would come up, sit down, then carefully roll himself a fat, untidy cigarette, spilling some tobacco in the process.
His eyes are made of buttons sewn on with untidy red stitches. Times, Sunday Times
careless and untidy in her personal habits
It makes you look untidy. Times, Sunday Times

THE Government is to hand out fines for untidy or unkempt gardens. The Sun
It had looked untidy, but it was better than the halo of frizz that came from the bits of tissue paper and the perm curlers. IN REAL LIFE
But no, they all came in an anorak or windcheater and a untidy motley lot they were.
Your bedroom is too messy An untidy bedroom can impact on sleep because a cluttered room means a cluttered mind. Times, Sunday Times
We grew up in an untidy house, with little thought for health and safety. Times, Sunday Times
He's clumsy and untidy but then again he's always willing to help.
Good grief, it makes Switzerland look untidy. Times, Sunday Times
Scribbled in her untidy scrawl were the words I love Nate Litz written across her macadam driveway in a pale rose-colored chalk.
It grows to about 60 cm high, and is best raised annually from seed or cuttings as it soon starts to straggle and look unattractively untidy.
This means that the cemetery has a very untidy, unkempt appearance but this will soon change.
The furniture was of a very rudimentary kind, consisting simply of two deal tables of unequal height placed end to end and not even covered with a cloth; together with a kind of big "canterbury" littered with untidy papers, sets of documents, registers and pamphlets, and finally some thirty rush-seated chairs placed here and there over the floor and a couple of ragged arm-chairs usually reserved for the patients. The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
She showed us into a quaint, small drawing room which owed its atmosphere quite clearly to Mrs. Camber, for whereas the study was indescribably untidy, this was a model of neatness without being formal or unhomely. Bat Wing
I can't read your untidy writing.
Deepika is my foot guru who, in half an hour, will transform my unattractive foot complete with corns, calluses and untidy-looking toes into a thing of beauty.
He had short brown hair that was tufty and untidy on top.
They reported that the area is overcrowded with vendors, and is untidy and chaotic.
A STUDENT took a week to realise she had been burgled because her room was so untidy. The Sun
He looked slightly scruffier than usual, his hair untidy, a battered, shapeless leather jacket over jeans with holes at both knees. AN OLDER WOMAN
If there is more storyline than this, it is but secondary to the Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Oedipus, Laius, and Jocasta myths that Malick has conflated concisely without their untidy cliches. G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man
Setting: untidy little kitchen; long table around which we take our places when the interview begins; books on the floor; a big fax machine from twenty years ago; watercolors I think at first are stained-glass windows, which he tells me he painted himself; photos from films in which he appeared, as Chief Big Tree and Chief Thundercloud did before him; poster saying don't blame me, i voted for russell means; leaflets from the campaign he's running now, for the presidency of the Tribal Agency, against the man from yesterday's powwow, John Yellowbird Steele; and leaflets in support of George W. Bush, whose side I already knew he had joined. In the Footsteps of Tocqueville
After years of tweezing my eyebrows they are now very scarce and look untidy, how can I achieve neat looking brows?
Beerbohm's other half-brother was a cheerfully untidy dresser at home although he frequently played the dandy on stage.
It is also used as a slang/familiar word for a bedroom that looks more like a junk room where everything is on top of each other - also used for a miserable bedsit, a small, uncomfortable & untidy house. Stagiaire - French Word-A-Day
A STUDENT took a week to realise she had been burgled because her room was so untidy. The Sun
Apart from looking rather untidy such displays can cause major difficulties for people in wheelchairs or the visually disabled.
THE Government is to hand out fines for untidy or unkempt gardens. The Sun
It had looked untidy, but it was better than the halo of frizz that came from the bits of tissue paper and the perm curlers. IN REAL LIFE
M. d'Agen's travelling equipment lay about the apartment, but failed to give any but an untidy air to its roomy bareness. A Gentleman of France
untidy and casual about money
The house was so untidy that she spent the whole day trying to establish some sort of order.
It had looked untidy, but it was better than the halo of frizz that came from the bits of tissue paper and the perm curlers. IN REAL LIFE
Certainly, the first 45 minutes were scrappy, untidy and bereft of anything resembling skilful football.
They go to school untidy and their home is filthy. The Sun
Nothing came of that plan except for several small commercial developments, and Randburg slipped down the steady slope to becoming an untidy, rundown business and shopping area.
My son's terribly untidy; my daughter's no different.
Heaped next to it is an untidy stack of slender oak and mesquite branches, the leña -- firewood -- responsible for the patio's distinctive smoky redolence. Huellas ...Dona Carlota
: draft (rough draft) brouillon, brouillonne (adjective) untidy, disorganized un brouillon, une brouillonne = a muddler, muddlehead French Word-A-Day:
Untidy with feeling, this was an impactful and unforgettable performance. Times, Sunday Times
She mingled with the crowds of young, untidy foreigners who lounged around the base of the statue in Piccadilly Circus.
He rejected the codification of ethics into moral theories that views such as Kantianism and (above all) utilitarianism see as essential to philosophical thinking about ethics, arguing that our ethical life is too untidy to be captured by any systematic moral theory. Bernard Williams
Worth visiting amongst a plethora of architectural gems are the palace, the tollbooth and the abbey but most enjoyable of all, are the little houses, randomly set against each other in an untidy straggle up the winding lanes.
He is white, 6ft tall, slim and of untidy appearance and was wearing a black baseball cap, dark denim jacket and jeans.
He was probably sitting upright in bed, his untidy brown hair, that I teased never had seen a hair brush before, in a horrifying mess, from all the tosses and turns he made in his sleep.
Some nepeta can get untidy after flowering but this one will keep a good winter silhouette. Times, Sunday Times
She was engaged in the homely occupation of darning socks, and what with her size, her loose untidy dress – serge of the colour of boiled spinach, with dibs and dabs of embroidery here and there – and a green scarf that belonged to the dress, and a rust-coloured one she had put on in a fit of absentmindedness, and her mending-basket, and a scatteration of socks, she pretty well filled the old-fashioned sofa. The Key
He's an untidy worker; he leaves his tools everywhere.
She had daily battles with her mother because she made the whole house untidy and particularly her bedroom, which her mother said was a disgrace. Stammering in Young Children
A lamp burned in the kitchen, showing a dirty brick floor and a littered table -- such a house as men keep, untidy and unhomelike. The Amazing Interlude
Eustace pulled up short in breathless dismay, for a few paces away there arose from among these untidy "humpies" some twenty natives -- erect, alert, all with poised boomerangs or spears ready to fling. Queensland Cousins
In terms of the ornaments of the liturgy, sometimes the altar is set up in a way that is untidy, such as crooked candles that could easily be straightened or unevenly spaced candlesticks that a few more minutes of preparation could rectify; unkempt vestments, altar linens, cassocks and surplices for servers are sometimes also in evidence, as are servers visibly wearing informal clothing beneath their cassock. Ars Celebrandi as it relates to the Usus Antiquior
Untidy pipes can be painted in the same colour as the wall, whereas a corner downpipe reaching the eaves could be planted with Golden Hop and become a pillar of chartreuse from April to November.
Last year I came back again and found, to my dismay and disappointment, a shabby, untidy and uncared for cluster of poorly kept houses with shocking colour schemes.
The hair was off-white and untidy, calling to mind the fleece of a bedraggled sheep. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
The house was so untidy that she spent the whole day trying to establish some sort of order.
The small untidy garden at the back of Merrill's flat faced south, trapping the warmth between its old brick walls.
Albert the archaeology student was in the university library, slumped over an untidy heap of palynological textbooks that traced the emergence of the emmer and the einkorn on the Fertile Crescent some six or seven thousand years ago.
Often slovenly and untidy, she dressed to draw attention to her figure, and the history of her love affairs and marriages provided a basis for much talk.
Her influence on the Chancellor has tidied up his life, his chaotically untidy homes and his unflattering clothing.
Are we turning away locals and visitors because of expensive and inadequate car parking, and an untidy cluttered High Street?
Many of the shelves are already cleared and the rest are an untidy jumble.
It puts up large, rather untidy leaves in the summer, they wither and vanish - and then, as the days start to shorten, overnight those irresistible, fleshy flower heads leap out of the soil.
If she tells me my room is untidy I go straight in there and sort it out right away. The Sun
He's very untidy about the house; mind you, I'm not much better.
I can't read your untidy writing.
He's very untidy about the house; mind you, I'm not much better.
My son's terribly untidy; my daughter's no different.
If an untidy person is unkempt, why is a tidy person not kempt?
Some people have untidy gardens, some have a swing seat by the river, some have a garden full of canoes. Times, Sunday Times
This means that the cemetery has a very untidy, unkempt appearance but this will soon change.
All my carefully sifted loose-stone paths are now concealed under an untidy blanket of straggly feverfew and so much red clover you could call it a crop.
He's an untidy worker; he leaves his tools everywhere.
So my house is untidy, just like my mum's used to be. The Sun
If my child or yours is wilfully untidy, lazy or disruptive, there is often a genuine case for saying that it is not really his fault.
Carefully I looked at his messy untidy desk, and tried to unravel bits of paper around to see if I could find anything.
His untidy clothes give one a misguided impression of him.
Not everyone wants a weedy or untidy garden, but we could encourage more insect food by planting more trees, woody shrubs and wall climbers.
He was flabby and untidy, his face was red and his hair wet with exertion. THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK
Blackburn once again converted but again Vale couldn't hold their lead and just five minutes later they lost possession at an untidy scrum and conceded a converted try.
It looks untidy and disrupts the game. Times, Sunday Times
Reading, absorbing and finally refolding Jess's letter, I placed it between my literature textbooks and the CDs that had accumulated into an untidy pile when I'd neglected to put them in their proper place.
It was a room, a young person's room (untidy, chaotic, littered with music warez and cheap slipchip films from Quiapo), and on the leftmost side, slightly distorted, was a veiled person, hands stretched out above as if in supplication, face contorted by a sorrow no one understood. Archive 2003-03-01
LEAVING a hotel room untidy. The Sun
It looks untidy and disrupts the game. Times, Sunday Times
The quiet guitarist had twinkly green eyes and a mop of untidy, sand-coloured curls that fell across his forehead and straggled engagingly over the tops of his ears.
There may be implicit confirmation here that the best lawyers rarely have tidy rooms (a claim made mainly by lawyers with untidy rooms ). Times, Sunday Times
Some people have untidy gardens, some have a swing seat by the river, some have a garden full of canoes. Times, Sunday Times
Harry was small and skinny with brilliant green eyes and jet black hair that was always untidy.
An untidy black lettering crawls all over these signs, overpacking them with percussive, ambiguous syllables.
She said that many graves had been adorned with urns, stones, shrubs and plants, but unfortunately many had become extremely untidy.
Although the film was made in a London studio and not on location, it adeptly evokes untidy street scenes and jostling crowds.
He is white, in his 20s, 5ft 8in, with collar-length, untidy light brown hair and sideburns.
This means untidy hair, unflattering clothes and no make-up. Times, Sunday Times
The presentation of the material was untidy.
I left the room untidy out of sheer defiance.
If not, the place will look cluttered and untidy. Times, Sunday Times
If fields, houses, gates, fences, derelict houses are untidy, then we lose marks.
James nervously straightened his untidy cravat and smoothed his hair.
The council worried that the house was chaotic and untidy and that the family were in debt. Times, Sunday Times
But the trouble is that referees don't like his style - he is scrappy and sometimes untidy, and is not a puncher.
Some people dislike the untidy look this gives them. Times, Sunday Times
His uniform was crumpled, untidy, splashed with mud.
LEAVING a hotel room untidy. The Sun
Greg blinked, taking in her freshly scrubbed face, blue towelling robe and slippers and the untidy way her hair was piled on top of her head.
Nobody should pretend that an untidy Greek exit and default would be easy. Times, Sunday Times
They reported that the area is overcrowded with vendors, and is untidy and chaotic.
The old man watched her go, a slight underdeveloped girl, wearing a ragged pair of boys' shorts too big for her, a lustrous mop of untidy hair falling in glossy black waves almost to her bony shoulders.
If she tells me my room is untidy I go straight in there and sort it out right away. The Sun
Outside the mortuary, there are more bodies lying in untidy rows covered by red-stained cloths, waiting to be identified by their families.
Listening to some people, Skipton is ‘not what it used to be’; it's a dirty, badly run, untidy town full of dog dirt.
The door slid open with a familiar creak, an untidy head poking itself through, silhouetted against the warm glow of the lamps outside.
You can't buy untidy off the shelf. Times, Sunday Times
If you've ever been to Albuquerque, you know that it's got a kind of grungy, dusty, wind-borne discarded-newspaper vibe (far removed from its glitsy upstream Santa Fe neighbor), and director Christine Jeffs has left this slightly untidy appearance intact on the screen. PegasusNews.com stories
I counted a dozen or so nests: huge, untidy rafts of stick floating in the high branches. Times, Sunday Times
I felt embarrassed about how untidy the house was.
By closing down with such vigour, Livingston forced the game into an untidy state, the action became hurried and so every pass and challenge seemed to quiver with anxious urgency.
It makes you look untidy. Times, Sunday Times
But in the past couple of weeks he has noticed that gravestones have been broken, there are tyre marks on the grass and that the whole area is looking untidy.
I went to the untidy heap of back issues that lay in the corner of the sports department and began flicking through them. Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
I counted a dozen or so nests: huge, untidy rafts of stick floating in the high branches. Times, Sunday Times
He was 5ft 8in and thin, with greasy, untidy black hair, wearing tinted glasses and had a scruffy appearance.
There may be implicit confirmation here that the best lawyers rarely have tidy rooms (a claim made mainly by lawyers with untidy rooms ). Times, Sunday Times
She cannot bear an untidy desk. Everything must be just so.
I can put up with the house being untidy, but I hate it if it's not clean.
Without him, the workplace would still be full of untidy-looking blokes in unsuitable double-breasted, roomy suits thank you, Giorgio Armani and "American Gigolo". Menswear's Formal Acceptance
I suppose the male equivalent to these little secrets was flying at half mast, flying low or egg on your face, to indicate undone or untidy trouser flies.
Why do we do accumulate, hoard and keep our homes and offices in messy, untidy, disorganized clutter?
It was all a bit untidy, especially when McNamara dropped his stick as he gathered the reins to hold his mount in balance for her final effort, but she was not the only one whose legs were beginning to jellify and she had enough left to repel Oscar Time The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
At convent school, I was always untidy and gobby and got everything wrong.
Nobody should pretend that an untidy Greek exit and default would be easy. Times, Sunday Times
A man is sitting in an armchair, papers in an untidy mess strewn all around and a lap-top sits on a coffee table in front of him, blinking in anticipation of future commands.
They seemed totally lost and there was far too many door staff making it look cluttered and untidy.
Goes with the verb 'trapes', to walk in a trailing or untidy way, but of later appearance. Times, Sunday Times
Letters were stuck to headstones instructing mourners to remove ornaments and embellishments because they made the cemetery untidy.
Greg blinked, taking in her freshly scrubbed face, blue towelling robe and slippers and the untidy way her hair was piled on top of her head.
When she saw the maisonette in Sowerby Road, Acomb, she was at first appalled by the untidy state it was in.
He arrives (albeit rarely) at our untidy, chaotic office and literally turns his nose up in distaste at the mess.
Often slovenly and untidy, she dressed to draw attention to her figure, and the history of her love affairs and marriages provided a basis for much talk.
They go to school untidy and their home is filthy. The Sun
If you combed your hair more often you wouldn't look so untidy.
The three men were described as in their twenties, all with dark hair and having a generally untidy appearance.
Your beautiful handwriting puts my untidy scrawl to shame.
When you are quite happy and confident with your untidy loops you can start to clean them up a little.
The house was so untidy that she spent the whole day trying to establish some sort of order.
That the punishment of lazy or untidy people should involve unswept dust or refuse makes sense, but why should the refuse be put into their stomachs?
ACT is opposing this bill, because it is very untidy, very messy legislation.
The Springboks were expected to win well, but the first quarter of the game was much of the same of the class of 2001 as passes went astray and line-outs were untidy.
I've got more untidy since I stopped going out to work.
If you are particularly house-proud and can't bear the thought of a dog helping to make everything untidy, then you would be better off not owning a Doberman.
Perhaps this means that they look untidy on a map and that planners get lost in them. Times, Sunday Times
If there is more storyline than this, it is but secondary to the Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, and Oedipus, Laius, and Jocasta myths that Malick has conflated concisely without their untidy cliches. G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man
She had daily battles with her mother because she made the whole house untidy and particularly her bedroom, which her mother said was a disgrace. Stammering in Young Children
She had a pleasant untidy face and chubby warm hands that were nice to touch.
I counted a dozen or so nests: huge, untidy rafts of stick floating in the high branches. Times, Sunday Times
The concerto soloist, a distinguished cellist, made an incorrect entry, and there was some untidy wind playing.
To begin with, residual problems from the end of the earlier era of colonisation, usually the result of untidy departures by the colonial power, still remain dangerously stalemated.
The mulberry tree is of medium size and attractively untidy in appearance.
THE Government is to hand out fines for untidy or unkempt gardens. The Sun
Mrs. Woodruff was called dandruff, and Miss Tidy was called Untidy because she was. Comments for Storynory: Free Audio Stories for Kids
an untidy living room
He stalked as best he could about the cluttered shop as he fumed, keeping always one half-step ahead of his short untidy wig. MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
The small untidy garden at the back of Merrill's flat faced south, trapping the warmth between its old brick walls.
The intended effect seems to be to insulate organizational members from the untidy exigencies of the larger world.
There were some untidy areas at different points around the village. These consisted mostly of weedy areas.
The presentation of the material was untidy.
So my house is untidy, just like my mum's used to be. The Sun
They worried about how these plants would cope in our wet winters, and were convinced that the grasses would all collapse into untidy heaps. Times, Sunday Times
His eyes are made of buttons sewn on with untidy red stitches. Times, Sunday Times
Play had become untidy for a brief period either side of the interval, with signs that a very good Waterloo side was beginning to get on top.
A certain homespun, unassuming, untidy tininess had become a virtue in itself.
He was tattooed all over, and had an untidy mane of black hair and flashing dark eyes.
We went to several which have large monasteries attached to them, with great untidy gardens, with ponds for sacred fish and sacred tortoises, and houses for sacred pigs, whose sacredness is shown by their monstrous obesity. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
My son had left the studio very untidy.
His untidy clothes give one a misguided impression of him.
We grew up in an untidy house, with little thought for health and safety. Times, Sunday Times
His characters live untidy lives and often fall into digressive daydreams, so troubled are their souls.
He's very untidy about the house; mind you, I'm not much better.
There is clearly much to do, if archaeology is to put its supremely untidy and overstuffed house in order
They go to school untidy and their home is filthy. The Sun
Twisting it around, she pulled the hair band over the top and left it in an untidy bun.
Some people dislike the untidy look this gives them. Times, Sunday Times
I'm a mixture of untidy and anal.
Why do we do accumulate, hoard and keep our homes and offices in messy, untidy, disorganized clutter?
Once the flowers fade, daffodils growing through grass often look untidy. Times, Sunday Times
You undressed quickly, leaving your clothes in an untidy heap on the floor.
The circular road is the most untidy area in the town due to the nature of buildings along this road, many of which are shabby outbuildings and garages.
It grows to about 60 cm high, and is best raised annually from seed or cuttings as it soon starts to straggle and look unattractively untidy.
Clothes were thrown in the luggage in an untidy heap.
You can still buy avanturine wax; only, like all waxes, except red and black, it seals very badly, and makes "kisses" in a most untidy fashion. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
Nicodemus~ a tan complexioned man with long tangled black hair, resembleing untidy dreadlocks, a thin rectangular beard growing from his chin, piercing blue eyes and appearing to be in his early 30’s. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » CarsonArtist’s Review Forum
Then he "tidied" the bed with masculine pulls and jerks till it was even more untidy than before, and went back to his chair. The Hippodrome
He's very untidy about the house; mind you, I'm not much better.
Why do we do accumulate, hoard and keep our homes and offices in messy, untidy, disorganized clutter?
For presence to turn into influence, the untidy and unsymmetrical details of the relation between a dead writer and a living one must become intense and formal at some point.
A broached brambleberry pie, a glass of wine and frothed tumbler of ale have been left in a disarray of pewter dishes and scattered filberts: untidy by Dutch standards, apart from the sharply ironed tablecloth.
Most residents in the county are proud to keep their homes tidy and know how to have an untidy place by looking at the tip, every day, as we go by!

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