higgledy-piggledy Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˌhɪɡ.əl.diˈpɪɡ.əl.di]
  • Us [ ˌhɪɡ.əl.diˈpɪɡ.əl.di]

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  • And yet, many potential loci of design are, as it were, higgledy-piggledy.

  • To return to the higgledy-piggledy, hotch-potch state of affairs that existed in this field prior to 1948 is unthinkable.

  • The consequence is that you have this higgledy-piggledy development where you have working-class dwellings practically up against belching chimneys, smoke, dirt and such things.

  • It seems to me that many of them have been spatchcocked together in a higgledy-piggledy way, with neither rhyme nor reason.

  • Many of them, as we all know, are afflicted with what is commonly called blight—neglected, with higgledy-piggledy development, lacking dignity or beauty.

  • The result is that delegated legislation is haphazard and higgledy-piggledy.

  • Inevitably, many of those building projects were hastily conceived, haphazard and higgledy-piggledy.

  • That higgledy-piggledy way of progressing has brought us to our current state.

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