untidy
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Happy Birthday to the glorious, untidy, steadfast, magnificent experiment that is the United States.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
In the living room, a pilot rearranges an untidy study desk.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026
Officers described K's bedroom as looking like a "prison cell", with other bedrooms also untidy and dirty.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026
The assessments from his former masters at Lancaster Road Junior School and Euston Road Senior School in Morecambe included criticism of the late entertainer's attendance and "poor and untidy written work".
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2024
The last was lanky, less bulky, with untidy, bronze-colored hair.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
Aunt Marge loved criticizing him, so the untidier he looked, the happier she would be.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
Riddle’s reply came quickly, his writing becoming untidier, as though he was hurrying to tell all he knew.
From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling
Char saw Mrs. Potter, untidier than ever, handing steaming cups across her buffet with incredible rapidity.
From The War-Workers by E.M. Delafield
The room had not much in it, or it would have been untidier; it looked neglected and gloomy, and some dirty plates, suggestive of long-past dinners, were piled on the table.
From The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth
The handwriting suddenly grew untidier than ever; two great blots defaced the paper; the style became feebly hysterical.
From Poor Miss Finch by Wilkie Collins
He was the untidiest person in the world.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2013
Laval devotes much time to his toilet, but he is one of the untidiest political figures on earth.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eric followed his guide up four short flights of marble stairs and was shewn into the untidiest room that he had ever seen, filled in equal measure with the priceless and the worthless.
From The Education of Eric Lane by Stephen McKenna
The bloods wore evening dress; even the untidiest junior oiled his hair and put on a clean collar.
From The Loom of Youth by Alec Waugh
He shut himself off from the world, and stopped his ears; lived in the untidiest of rooms, and would not have his garden tended, "preferring to see all things wild and savage about him."
From Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers by Esther Singleton
Never mind all the stuff she has persuaded the untidied masses to extract from their overstuffed homes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2019
And at night the intrepid traveler is not surprised to return and find the room still unmade, the bureau still undusted and the damp towel still on the untidied washstand.
From Time Magazine Archive
The remains of a fire untidied the grate; the flimsiest curtains were hung before the windows.
From Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl by Horace W. C. (Horace Wykeham Can) Newte
O my chamber's untidied, unmade my bed Though the day has begun to wear!
From Wessex Poems and Other Verses by Thomas Hardy
You can't tidy anything without untidying yourself; just look at my trousers.
From Manalive by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
The one thing I never could stand is a great lout of a man smoking all over my house and going to sleep in his chair after dinner, and untidying everything.
From Getting Married by Bernard Shaw
He hoped that her hands were not untidying him beyond quick repair: he very much disliked having his hair ruffled.
From Burning Sands by Arthur Weigal
