topsy-turvey

Example Sentences

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So Meg wrestled alone with the refractory sweetmeats all that hot summer day, and at five o’clock sat down in her topsy-turvey kitchen, wrung her bedaubed hands, lifted up her voice and wept.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

It may be proper to make us all stand on our heads, with our legs sticking up in the air; but I for one don't like being topsy-turvey, and I won't try it.

From He Knew He Was Right by Trollope, Anthony

Their ideas are so topsy-turvey that they regard with contempt those who are engaged in useful work!

From The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Tressell, Robert

This is the true inwardness of the topsy-turvey humourist.

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel

That time was full of a quite topsy-turvey tyranny, and the English humorist stood on his head to suit it.

From A Short History of England by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)