0 in a way that is untidy or produces dirt and untidiness: --
His flatmate eats messily and listens to loud music.
He wrote messily with a fountain pen.
1 in a confused or awkward way: --
The situation became messily complicated when he went back to his wife.
The series starts messily but gets better after a couple of episodes.
In an overheated market like that, no one should be surprised when it ends messily.
His private life was deeply and messily unhappy.
The stew sloshes messily into my bowl.
He flicked his cigarette ash rather messily towards the waste bin, there being no ashtray.
Along the walls were shelves crammed messily with stethoscopes, hypodermics, speculums.
NIEUWE WOORDEN
European
May 10, 2021
WOORD VAN DE DAG
Shimmer
messily