Thesaurus / higgledy piggledy
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synonyms for higgledy piggledy
- haphazard
- headlong
- jumbled
- about
- anyhow
- any which way
- anywise
- around
- at random
- cluttered
- disorderly
- hastily
- higgledy-piggledy
- hit-or-miss
- hotfoot
- hurriedly
- impetuously
- incautiously
- in confusion
- incontinently
- irregular
- muddled
- pell-mell
- random
- randomly
- rashly
- recklessly
- topsy-turvy
- tumultous/tumultuous
- unmindfully
- wildly
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On this page you'll find 59 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to higgledy piggledy, such as: anarchic, blurred, chaotic, disarranged, disordered, and disorderly.
How to use higgledy piggledy in a sentence
The cargo of marble blocks, piled higgledy-piggledy like a child's building-bricks, formed a thorough citadel.
THE TREMENDOUS EVENTMAURICE LEBLANCThey walked along in silence, the most ill-sorted pair that you might hope to find in all that higgledy-piggledy city.
CHEERFUL--BY REQUESTEDNA FERBERSeveral names may be set in higgledy-piggledy fashion, for they belong to no class, and are sui generis.
CURIOSITIES OF PURITAN NOMENCLATURECHARLES W. BARDSLEYThe contents of a hundred Primers rose higgledy-piggledy, to congest his mind and memory.
THE PROMISE OF AIRALGERNON BLACKWOODShe plumped into it higgledy-piggledy and curled up, an unsightly, humpful excrescence upon its suave surface.
WANTED: A HUSBANDSAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMSAll that was wanting, was someone with a head on to put things straightall was higgledy-piggledy and confusion.
A SOLDIER'S EXPERIENCE OR A VOICE FROM THE RANKS: SHOWING THE COST OF WAR IN BLOOD AND TREASURETIMOTHY GOWINGOf course those in the higgledy-piggledy position must be of the poorest class, but you can make a few exceptions.
OVERLAND THROUGH ASIA; PICTURES OF SIBERIAN, CHINESE, AND TARTAR LIFETHOMAS WALLACE KNOXThe walls had a gap here, roughly choked up by a higgledy-piggledy heap of rubbish.
THE SON OF CLEMENCEAUALEXANDRE (FILS) DUMASReverently he pulled aside the front of the battered dwelling-place, and saw the minute furniture higgledy-piggledy.
SINISTER STREET, VOL. 1COMPTON MACKENZIEI haven't catalogued mine, I have just put them down "higgledy-piggledy," as we used to say when we were children.
THE SMILING HILL-TOPJULIA M. SLOANE