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  • adjective comparative form of untidy: more untidy

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Examples

  • So instead of getting tidier, my room gets untidier.

    Reefer Madness « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2008

  • I wonder whose household was untidier, the Empsons 'or John Bayley and Iris Murdoch's, whose grotty kitchen evoked visions of Hieronymous Bosch.

    LRB Hits the Big 3-0: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • "Indie-film exec Jeff Lipsky's sophomore feature as writer-director shares with his distribution work a desire to restore some of the untidier virtues of 70s American film," writes Rob Nelson in the Voice.

    GreenCine Daily: Flannel Pajamas. 2006

  • This is potentially a noisier and untidier situation than one where everyone agrees what will and will not 'count' as an intervention in public debate; but at least it does not seek to conceal or deny difference.

    Rome Lecture: 'Secularism, Faith and Freedom' 2006

  • This is potentially a noisier and untidier situation than one where everyone agrees what will and will not 'count' as an intervention in public debate; but at least it does not seek to conceal or deny difference.

    Rome Lecture: 'Secularism, Faith and Freedom' 2006

  • This is potentially a noisier and untidier situation than one where everyone agrees what will and will not 'count' as an intervention in public debate; but at least it does not seek to conceal or deny difference.

    Rome Lecture: 'Secularism, Faith and Freedom' 2006

  • Polly looked untidier than ever; she wore a slatternly wrapper, and her hair was thrust unbrushed into its net.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • Scattered tents belonging to hangers-on and hobos had been pitched in an untidier camp.

    A Body In The Bath House Davis, Lindsey 2001

  • Aunt Marge loved criticizing him, so the untidier he looked, the happier she would be.

    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Rowling, J. K. 1999

  • Riddle's reply came quickly, his writing becoming untidier, as though he was hurrying to tell all he knew.

    Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets Rowling, J. K. 1999

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