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How to use untidy in a sentence

21 example sentences · adjective, verb

Untidy means sloppy. Example: “I have never seen such an untidy bedroom!”

Examples of untidy by meaning

adjectiveSloppy.

  • I have never seen such an untidy bedroom!

adjectiveDisorganized.

  • His finances were in an untidy state when he died.

verbTo make untidy, to make a mess.

  • Before she closed each drawer she rummaged her hands through the clothes, untidying them just enough to feel comfortable.2014, Jennie Shortridge, Love Water Memory, page 116

More sentences with untidy

  • The wet weather made her hair frizzy and untidy.From the entry frizzy
  • Those who have scrappy, untidy writing are often scrappy and untidy in their thinking.2001, Richard Craze, Chill Out: 100 Creative Ways to Relax, Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks, Inc., →ISBN, page 135. From the entry penperson
  • I've always thought I was too large for a soft, musical name like Louise, too untidy.1991, Emily Ellison, The Picture Makers, G.K.Hall, →ISBN, page 111. From the entry Louise
  • It’s very difficult to maintain and when it’s too long it becomes senget (untidy).1991 March 26, The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press…. From the entry senget
  • A scug was an untidy, ill-mannered, and morally undeveloped boy, a shirker at games, bumptious and arrogant.1969, Ralph G. Martin, Jennie: the Life of Lady Randolph Churchill: The romantic years, 1854-1895, Prentice-Hall, page 54. From the entry scug
  • Too often both untidy and oldfashioned, it closed after four performances.1951 March 5, “New Plays in Manhattan”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2023. From the entry lumpish
  • An untidy workwoman took their order and left them standing at the door.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry workwoman
  • They were threaded with the curved thorns and pallid pinks of dogrose, like untidy stitching on a patchwork quilt.2024, Susie Dent, Guilty By Definition, Zaffre, page 111. From the entry dogrose
  • His long untidy hair, also a mislead.2021, Aren Bjorgman, Frozen Ashes. From the entry mislead
  • Crammed with gossip, anecdotes, and confessions . . ., his garrulous, untidy narratives read like a good novel.1984 Dec, James Atlas, “A Modern Whitman”, in The Atlantic. From the entry garrulous
  • MacAskill is tall and sturdily built, with an untidy mop of dark-blond hair that had grown during the pandemic to messianic lengths.2022 August 28, “The Reluctant Prophet of Effective Altruism”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry unwild
  • Reality struck with appalling clarity, yet she could only lie down, partially drugged and untidy as she was from such rough traveling.2011, Linda Lee Chaikin, Hawaiian Crosswinds, Moody Publishers, →ISBN. From the entry quell
  • An experimental metaphysics, rather than preformatting the world, encourages the untidy proliferation of as many objects and actors as the universe (or, better, pluriverse) can muster.2013, Adam S. Miller, Speculative Grace: Bruno Latour and Object-Oriented Theology, →ISBN, page 15. From the entry pluriverse
  • The mountainy children looked at the untidy village women with surprise and the village women looked back with that certain disdain which villagers have for poor mountainy people.1960, Edna O'Brien, The Country Girls. From the entry mountainy
  • I note these remedies for untidy hands, a little tip which every man does not know: Take a bowl of warm water and some good soap.1900 June 23, “For Mere Man”, in The Critic, Adelaide, S.A., →OCLC, page 24, column 4. From the entry nail-clippers
  • IMO, prefixing a directory name with a pling so that a program within it is run when you double click on it is a rather untidy way to do things.1994, C.P. Brown, “HAhAhA”, in comp.sys.acorn.advocacy (Usenet). From the entry pling
  • We went into queer untidy courtyards and rooms that had once belonged to the rich, for there were remains of fine windows, carved stucco panels and recesses with delicate gatchwork.1935, Onera Amelia Merritt, Persia: Romance & Reality, page 254. From the entry gatchwork
  • Some broken harness to be mended, a loose door to be hinged, two saddles that needed oiling, and a mass of untidy canvas to be inspected for rents and winkle-hawks.1932, Katharine Newlin Burt, The Tall Ladder, page 81. From the entry winkle-hawk

Meaning of untidy

  1. adjective Sloppy.
  2. adjective Disorganized.
  3. verb To make untidy, to make a mess.

Full definition of untidy

Questions about untidy in a sentence

How do you use untidy in a sentence?
Untidy is used as an adjective and verb. For example: “I have never seen such an untidy bedroom!”
What is a short sentence with untidy?
“His long untidy hair, also a mislead.”
What does untidy mean?
Untidy means sloppy.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: untidy (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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