UNTIDINESS Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

untidiness

noun

Definition of untidiness

as in messiness

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Recent Examples of untidiness But there’s also an untidiness to it, teetering on the edge of its seams, threatening to unravel but always miraculously staying in place. — Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 13 Oct. 2026 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. — 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

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Noun

The fight sequences have an engaging messiness, the characters often fumbling around rather than delivering expert moves.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
One imagines Dahl, whose sometimes monstrous characters captured childhood in all its messiness, would be relieved.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of messiness

Noun

This approach, a mix of detailed fan service and intentional sloppiness, is the reason Street Fighter is such an exasperatingly fun watch.

— Alison Willmore, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026
In the second half, United’s defensive sloppiness only got worse and led to Brighton adding a second and third in almost comical fashion, gifting goals to Maxim De Cuyper and Pascal Gross in a five-minute spell.

— Chris McKenna, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of sloppiness

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The Yolo County parents of a 7-day-old infant found living in squalor in a tent under an overpass have pleaded not guilty to the child endangerment charges against them, records show.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
Bryant was charged in February 2025 with first-degree child abuse after investigators found that her children — at the time ages 12, 13, and 15 — had been living alone for at least four years in a townhouse on Lydia Lane, trapped in squalor.

— Andrea May Sahouri, Freep.com, 1 Sep. 2026

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