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ADJECTIVE messy COMPARATIVE messier SUPERLATIVE messiest
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messy English

Meaning messy meaning

What does messy mean?
Definitions in simple English

messy

Something that is messy is very chaotic and not organized.

messy

(= mussy) dirty and disorderly a mussy fussy bedroom a child's messy eating habits

Synonyms messy synonyms

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Topics messy topics

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Simple sentences

My hair is so messy!
My apartment is messy and cluttered.
Tom's room is messy.
Tom and Mary enlisted the services of a professional declutterer, because they could no longer cope with their messy house.
Tom is messy.
It's a messy situation.
My room's a little messy.
Tom's room is horribly messy and you can't even put your foot anywhere.
Tom's room is very messy.
Tom walked into his messy apartment.
Your handwriting is messy.
Things got messy.
My room is very messy.

Movie subtitles

Oh, you and your messy old papers and contracts. and money, money, money.
That's all. - Ain't he messy though.
MY MESSY LANDING CAUSED THIS.
I'm just a small businessman in a very messy business, but I like to follow through on a sale.
We can avoid a messy breakup.
It's a messy story.
You're conceited, thoughtless and messy.
Well, I cannot imagine Miss Inwood going to see her young man. Or your young man, whose ever young man he is, in this nasty, messy condition.
It soon gets messy without the wife around!
Is the ship too messy for you?
No one minds. It's messy, but worth it.
Because to try to take it outside would be fatal, as well as messy.
The study's messy, but quiet.
Too bad, that you are coming to such a messy end.
It's all kind of messy.
Ain't he messy though.
It was awfully messy because before he could remarry her he had to divorce his third wife, Louise's mother.
Messy things, pipes.
I'm edgy, messy, stubborn?
One thing more Sergeant, you will say that the body had no arms, no head and no legs, was it a messy job?
Messy as you are, you probably misplaced it.
Checking up on people is messy work, but only when they're doing things.
No one minds. - It's messy, but worth it.
This is messy business.
I'M NOT ABOVE BEING MESSY.
I'm a small businessman in a messy business. but I like to follow through on a sale.
It's rather messy in here.
Are you crazy? There's a million schoolgirls in my messy room!
You're not much of a bargain. You're conceited, thoughtless and messy.
Place is messy enough as it is.
You look better messy.
Come here, Mario, you're all messy!
You think it's gonna bother me to look at a messy.
It's always so messy!

News and current affairs

What was once the dignified preserve of obviously elite currencies could become the site of messy political battles for elevated status.
In short, there is no regulatory system that I trust more than the current messy world of conflicting interests.
As the economy worsened, unemployment rose, and Obama had to deal with the messy compromises of governing, the mirror became cloudier.
Democratic politics is messy and divisive, and riddled with compromises.
Such messy policy details have never much bothered free-market economists.
Unfortunately, today's rather messy national and international political environments have so far precluded such an approach.
The euro, finally and fully discredited, would then meet a very messy end.
Multi-year re-alignments are messy and complex, especially when they occur simultaneously at the national and global levels, and when multi-speed growth, inflation, and credit dynamics are at work, as is the case today.
We find that the media not only fail to weed out bad ideas, but that they often favor bad ideas, especially when the truth is too messy to be packaged neatly.
Informal learning implies a messy, unruly, and potentially subversive process.
Like his predecessors, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Obama wants to avoid messy entanglements in Africa's internal politics.
For starters, there is the traditional idea that politics end at the water's edge, where messy domestic disagreements are supposed to give way to the abstraction of one state with a unified national interest.
Taiwan's democratic experiences are messy, but no messier than the vote that brought President Bush to power four years ago.
But wise leaders are necessarily pragmatic, because messy reality demands compromise and accommodation.
The US economy is still ranked near the top in competitiveness by the World Economic Forum, and the political system, in its own messy way, has slowly begun to wrestle with the necessary changes.
The country was Argentina, which took about 10 years to move from its hard exchange-rate peg to the dollar, introduced in 1991, to its messy default at the turn of 2001-2002.
If Greece were to follow the Argentine script and be forced to leave the eurozone after a messy default, its nominal GDP is likely to be halved.
Yes, this sounds messy, and may duplicate work or become overly compartmentalized.
Of course, this system is a little messy; it does have the problem of duplicated efforts.
Informal learning implies a messy, unruly, and potentially subversive process. But it also promises to nurture the creative ferment in which great science thrives.
Again, reporting such a messy story is a challenge; most Western news editors have preferred to highlight Iraq and Afghanistan.
Democracy is intrinsically messy, but it won't jeopardize Pakistan's partnership in the war on terror.
So what lessons should we draw from the inevitably messy nature of electoral processes in countries where there is either no middle class or only a rudimentary one, and where a democratic culture is at best in its infancy?

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