higgledy

I raised a hand self-consciously to my locks, which as usual, could be politely described as higgledy-piggledy.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

No doubt these things are all necessary to a mounted sentry, or they would not have been there; but it always seemed as though the horse had been loaded gipsy-fashion, in a manner that I may perhaps best describe as higgledy-piggledy, and that there was a want of military precision in the packing.

North America 1862

It was the time of afternoon called the chaya, when the shadow of the tall red-brick-and-marble Friday Mosque fell across the higgledy shacks of the slum clustered at its feet, that slum whose ramshackle tin roofs created such a swelter of heat that it was insupportable to be inside the fragile shacks except during the chaya and at night.

G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010

It was the time of afternoon called the chaya, when the shadow of the tall red-brick-and-marble Friday Mosque fell across the higgledy shacks of the slum clustered at its feet, that slum whose ramshackle tin roofs created such a swelter of heat that it was insupportable to be inside the fragile shacks except during the chaya and at night.

G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010

It was the time of afternoon called the chaya, when the shadow of the tall red-brick-and-marble Friday Mosque fell across the higgledy shacks of the slum clustered at its feet, that slum whose ramshackle tin roofs created such a swelter of heat that it was insupportable to be inside the fragile shacks except during the chaya and at night.

G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010

It was the time of afternoon called the chaya, when the shadow of the tall red-brick-and-marble Friday Mosque fell across the higgledy shacks of the slum clustered at its feet, that slum whose ramshackle tin roofs created such a swelter of heat that it was insupportable to be inside the fragile shacks except during the chaya and at night.

G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010

At the moment I have left the list higgledy-piggledy, like a jumble sale of books, as it appealed to me that way.

50 Best Books « Tales from the Reading Room 2009

It was the time of afternoon called the chaya, when the shadow of the tall red-brick-and-marble Friday Mosque fell across the higgledy shacks of the slum clustered at its feet, that slum whose ramshackle tin roofs created such a swelter of heat that it was insupportable to be inside the fragile shacks except during the chaya and at night.

G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers G. Roger Denson 2010

In contrast to the minimalism of the main house, the owner describes the guesthouse as "higgledy piggledy."

The Australian Open Sarah Tilton 2011

For a while I hovered above the town’s higgledy-piggledy houses.

Excerpt: The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan 2009