messiness

Example Sentences

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Mickey is a mix of professional competence and personal messiness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026

Any discrepancies in Erika’s biography can be explained by the normal messiness of human life and memory, plus mundane bureaucratic issues.

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2026

“They don’t want to deal with the papers and documents and messiness of that.”

From MarketWatch • Jan. 29, 2026

But, apart from those narrative liberties, she purports to be chronicling true events, in all their messiness.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2026

Even if we’re thrown away by people with more money, we can always climb our way out of the messiness and the brokenness of our lives.

From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi