messy

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Zvërnec has proved to be a thicket of Albanian property disputes, a common problem given that the country nationalized property during communism then underwent a messy process of returning it to private ownership.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

On the island, dissidents were a messy nuisance.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026

No matter the era in which they were raised, kids tend to be messy.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

As one might expect, there are some messy entanglements within and outside the group.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

There were scraps of paper on which he had written his evil ideas in an illegible scrawl, lying in messy piles on top of the copy of Nuptial Law he had taken away from Klaus.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket