untidiness

Example Sentences

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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 in dress, and indeed in all of their belongings, is another of the colonial schoolboys' weaknesses.

From Town Life in Australia by Twopeny, Richard Ernest Nowell

Untidiness in any of one's personal habits—and what could be more personal than a room?—should be taken up and corrected even as one attempts to correct any weak point in one's character.

From A Girl's Student Days and After by Woolley, Mary Emma

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

From A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William