untidiness

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Untidiness in dress, speech and emotions is readily connected to human relationships.

From Time Magazine Archive

Untidiness is execrable, reprehensible, unseemly, and quite detestable.

From A Word to Women by Humphry, Mrs. C. E.

Untidiness, ill- kept hands and nails, and the use of jewelry or perfume should not be tolerated in the second man, whether be serves only as footman, or in the house.

From Book of Etiquette, Volume 2 by Watson, Lillian Eichler

"Untidiness lends itself to romance, does it not?"

From A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William

Untidiness is almost equally universal among the same classes, and, being a natural propensity, is extremely difficult of eradication.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various