messily

Thân thiện

Rossi spat very deliberately, and very messily, upon Durieux's party card.

Definition

Adverb: - In a messy, untidy, or disorderly manner. It describes an action performed without care for neatness or order, often resulting in a cluttered or dirty state.

Usage

The adverb "messily" modifies a verb to describe how an action is performed. It emphasizes the lack of cleanliness, organization, or precision in the execution of that action.

Examples

• She painted the wall messily, leaving drips and splatters everywhere.
• The papers were stacked messily on the desk, making it hard to find anything.
• He ate his sandwich messily, dropping crumbs all over the floor.
• The child glued the pieces of the craft project together messily.

Advanced Usage

• "to end messily": to conclude in a disorderly, complicated, or unpleasant way.
  • Their business partnership ended messily with lawsuits and accusations.
• "to be messily arranged": to be organized in a haphazard or untidy fashion.
  • The data in the old files was messily arranged, requiring days to sort.

Variants and Related Words

• Messy (adjective): untidy, dirty, or disorderly.
  • He has a very messy room.
• Mess (noun): a dirty or untidy state of things or a place; a situation that is confused and full of problems.
  • Please clean up this mess.
  • His finances are in a mess.

Synonyms

• Untidily
• Slovenly
• Clumsily
• Haphazardly
• Sloppily

Antonyms

• Neatly
• Tidily
• Orderly
• Precisely
• Cleanly

Related Phrases and Idioms

• "To make a mess of something": to do something badly, resulting in a disordered or unsuccessful outcome. (Note: This phrase uses the related noun "mess," not the adverb "messily" directly).
  • He made a mess of the presentation by forgetting his main points.

Học thuật

Adverb

1. in a messy, untidy manner
   • Rossi spat very deliberately, and very messily, upon Durieux's party card

Từ đồng nghĩa

• untidily