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Recent Examples of untidiness
These conspicuous little signs of untidiness take mere seconds to clean up and can be the secret to a home that somehow always looks pristine, even if just at first glance.
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Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2026
Bills are being paid late, the practice is a frightening level of untidiness, there’s a miniature horse in the study, and Siegfried is passed out on the sofa with some loose woman under a trench coat beside him.
—Alice Burton, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
Despite no Premier League goals and a general untidiness to his work, his manager sees his potential.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2025
Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2026
Bills are being paid late, the practice is a frightening level of untidiness, there’s a miniature horse in the study, and Siegfried is passed out on the sofa with some loose woman under a trench coat beside him.
—Alice Burton, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
Despite no Premier League goals and a general untidiness to his work, his manager sees his potential.
—Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for untidiness
Noun
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But the image of the jovial professor, divorced from the messiness of the politics of the day after his own resignation in a COVID-era scandal in 2022, didn’t quite square with the reality of his time in Miami.—
Claire Heddles,
Miami Herald,
26 Apr. 2026
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But that messiness is how students learn.—
Shelley Mitchell,
The Conversation,
23 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Starting early in the second period, however, the Flyers found themselves on one odd-man rush after another, partially because of their aggressive approach and partially because the Penguins’ trademark sloppiness started to bite them.—
Josh Yohe,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2026
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Was this a signal or just sloppiness?—
David D. Kirkpatrick,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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But does the vitality mask the squalor or the squalor the vitality?—
SPIN Team,
SPIN,
20 Apr. 2026
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And while these tenants paid their rent month after month, some of them up to $900 a month to live in squalor.—
Nikki DeMentri,
CBS News,
20 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Untidiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/untidiness. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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