untidy

Example Sentences

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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

"Yet the place looks scruffy and untidy and gets worse year after year, all while FirstPort keep putting their charges up," she added.

From BBC • Nov. 22, 2024

There, in an untidy pile on M. Yoshoto’s broad desk, lay some dozen or more unopened, enormous, bulging, Manilla envelopes.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger