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messy

Definition for messy

adjective as in cluttered, dirty

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They don’t manage risk, hold accountability, reassure anxious clients or integrate messy context across teams.

In recent years, shoppers have complained of Target’s messy stores, items missing on shelves and less exciting products.

Sondheim, Mr. Joseph writes, used games “as a crucible for relationships to get messy and deepen.”

But the two leads are constantly undone by the messy film swirling around them.

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But the teamwork of the performers honors the messy yet undeniably effective cooperation of Alice and her freedom fighters — women who changed the world by not staying silent in their prescribed place.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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