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untidily

WordNet
  1. (adv) untidily
    in a messy, untidy manner "Rossi spat very deliberately, and very messily, upon Durieux's party card"
Usage in literature

A mass of papers, books, and correspondence littered it untidily. "The Adventures of Jimmie Dale" by Frank L. Packard

A faded carpet had been flung untidily on the floor. "The Mystery of 31 New Inn" by R. Austin Freeman

She was tall, like the old man, but her face was red and puffy, while a wisp of fair hair fell untidily over her forehead. "Chatterbox, 1905." by Various

Some clothing lay untidily over one of the two rush-bottomed chairs. "The Woman in Black" by Edmund Clerihew Bentley

In the dining-room I could see the remains of our supper lying untidily. "The Trail of '98" by Robert W. Service

Having paid and dismissed my cab, I was shown into a small, untidily kept parlour, where I was left to my own meditations. "A Master of Mysteries" by L. T. Meade

Was it really true that she dressed so untidily as this little scamp made out? "Beatrice Leigh at College" by Julia Augusta Schwartz

Her hair, as a rule so elaborately arranged, was tumbling untidily over her neck. "The Trembling of a Leaf" by William Somerset Maugham

The flowers, bright and beautiful, lay untidily on the bottom of the glass prison. "Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930" by Various

The sheets, tossed untidily about the table were mostly blank ones. "The Very Small Person" by Annie Hamilton Donnell

Usage in poetry
The semi-circular and lunar bay
Where the grey stone fall to untidily
The grey volcanic waves: no man, no tree,
Break the cold greenness of the bitten lea-
The scene the orator of memory
Already knew: forbore till now to say.