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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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