How to Use untidy in a Sentence
untidy
adjective- I can never find anything in this untidy office.
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Then trim any untidy hairs that are too curly, or are longer than the rest.
—Glamour, 10 May 2019
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These are just a few of the many untidy and chaotic but oh-so-fun events that are part of this year’s Messy Fest.
—Alison Stanton, azcentral, 12 Sep. 2019
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That same day, Self’s cellmate complained that Self was untidy and asked him to clean up the cell.
—oregonlive, 10 Apr. 2020
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In a way, my medium-size bag’s untidy insides were a cry for help.
—Madeline Fass, Vogue, 28 Mar. 2018
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In addition, the weight of the seed pods tends to eventually pull the plants over and make the planting look more untidy.
—Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 13 May 2017
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Short, skinny and untidy, Deku looks more like a nerdy teenager than a comic book hero.
—Charles Solomon, latimes.com, 2 July 2018
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As the crowds milled throughout Outside Lands on the festival’s first day, the grass was trampled, but not untidy.
—Melia Russell, SFChronicle.com, 9 Aug. 2019
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But the bikes faced vandalism and theft, and were left in untidy piles that city authorities had to deal with.
—Jane Li, Quartz, 19 June 2019
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And since this is a McDonagh play, things will become — untidy.
—Dan Barry, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2020
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So was the untidy fact that the shooter himself, like most mass murderers, was white himself.
—Bob Moser, New Republic, 6 Oct. 2017
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Fishback spent the week in a small room with an untidy roommate, according to police records.
—C.j. Chivers, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
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My classwork was very untidy, and my handwriting was the despair of my teachers.
—Valerie Strauss, Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2018
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Evans said that Rosendorff appeared at their front door anxious and untidy—his voice was shaky, his shirt was untucked, and his hair uncombed.
—Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 8 Nov. 2022
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Putting the ball in play after a long at-bat sparked an inning that finished with four runs, in spite of some untidy Braves’ unraveling.
—Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2022
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After an untidy start to the first half, Caballero had an absolute shocker to gift Croatia the lead.
—SI.com, 21 June 2018
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Bad parents of their own extended childhoods, struggling with the second, or third, act of untidy lives.
—Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
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The bamboo viscose construction just seems to lend itself to a rumpled, untidy look.
—Sarah Bradley, Health, 28 Mar. 2023
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These untidy ends are more provocative than the moments of exposition.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2023
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Messy hair, noisy kids and untidy spaces have intruded into our work lives via our screens like never before.
—Lisa Bennett, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
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The iconic prologue – a meticulous mix of jazz, athleticism, violence and grace — is off-point and untidy.
—Lee Williams | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 14 Oct. 2019
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Anousheh: Grappling with this question has led me down a very untidy linguistic rabbit hole, but the vague answer is that many of the world’s languages do NOT use gendered pronouns.
—Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2022
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Croatia equalized in the fourth minute with another untidy goal.
—Gerald Imray, chicagotribune.com, 1 July 2018
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In other words: The blockchain could bring some discipline to the notoriously untidy U.S. health care framework.
—Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 9 Jan. 2018
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His son was in his underwear in an untidy room littered with prescription bottles.
—Time, 8 Dec. 2017
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Before Einstein, there was an untidy collection of equations to describe how light behaves from the point of view of a moving observer.
—Quanta Magazine, 30 Aug. 2017
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In what was an untidy opening, both sides lacked an element of creativity, not dissimilar to the first leg.
—SI.com, 19 July 2017
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Horton’s untidy, rampant suburban garden swamps fences and pergolas and seems to rise like a tide toward the red-roofed houses themselves.
—Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books, 16 Mar. 2020
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The sleek magnetic closure is preferable to untidy clasps and straps, while the foldable design can create a stand with two different viewing angles.
—Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 20 June 2023
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The anonymous messenger chided her about her untidy bedroom.
—Paula McMahon, Sun-Sentinel.com, 20 Apr. 2018
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