untidiness

untidy | American Dictionary

untidy
adjective
us/ʌnˈtɑɪ·di/
not neat or well-arranged:
an untidy yard

Examples of untidy

untidy
These modifications to their pure theory may seem to be untidy and arbitrary.
The overall layout of the book is at times unhelpful: tables and diagrams spill into margins and generally look cramped and untidy.
We try to fool the past by reconstructing it in our own image, imposing order and significance on the untidy sources we depend upon.
Indeed, the edition as a whole is too untidy to be regarded as satisfactory.
Clans could perhaps better be thought of as an untidy knot, or dense cluster of knots.
It is a comprehensive, lucid, and carefully researched piece of work analyzing an untidy body of literature.
Simply sweeping untidy components of the phenomena under the proverbial rug will not get us closer to a satisfactory explanation.
The point is we can construct and use untidy and incomplete mappings without ever being close to proving the existance of an isomorphism (partial or otherwise).
The ' middle sort of people ' in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries remain elusive, definitions of them continue to be imprecise, and the resultant groups are still incoherent and untidy.
This is, indeed, rather untidy, but it represents a genuine attempt by a thoughtful international political theorist to work through the moral implications of his position.
The variable lengths of roles and the wealth of minor characters, untidy as they might appear on paper, are part of the work's realism and charm.
Salma's father criticizes her dirty and untidy ways, with unwashed dishes, vegetable peelings and leftover food strewn around the kitchen and flies crawling over the uncovered food.
To talk as if, somehow, all that is happening is very untidy, and must be put in order, is, to many of us, monstrous.
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