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词汇 messily
释义 messily
adverb
uk /ˈmes.əl.i/ us /ˈmes.əl.i/

messilyadverb (UNTIDILY)


in a way that is untidy or produces dirt and untidiness: 凌乱地,杂乱地
He wrote messily with a fountain pen.他用钢笔乱写一通。
His flatmate eats messily and listens to loud music.他的室友吃得乱七八糟,听着嘈杂的音乐。
Along the walls were shelves crammed messily with stethoscopes, hypodermics, speculums.
He flicked his cigarette ash rather messily towards the waste bin, there being no ashtray.
The stew sloshes messily into my bowl.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Dirty & untidy
all over the placeidiom
Augean
besmeared
bespattered
bloodied
look like something the cat brought/dragged inidiom
look like/as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwardsidiom
manky
messy
mucky
sluttish
sluttishly
soiled
sordid
sordidly
unsterilized
untidily
untidy
untrimmed
unwashed

messilyadverb (SITUATION)


in a confused or awkward way:
The series starts messily but gets better after a couple of episodes.
The situation became messily complicated when he went back to his wife.
His private life was deeply and messily unhappy.
In an overheated market like that, no one should be surprised when it ends messily.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Complexity
advanced
all-singing
baroque
baroquely
be more to something than meets the eyeidiom
fancily
finicky
fractally
high-tech
indirectly
onerousness
ornate
ornately
over-elaborate
over-fussy
tortuously
tortuousness
twisty
ultra-sophisticated
wheels within wheelsidiom

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