untidy
/ʌnˈtaɪdi/ verb C2- To make untidy, to make a mess
He/she/it untidies · Past untidied · Past participle untidied · -ing form untidying
Verb forms
- Base form
- untidy
- He/she/it
- untidies
- Past
- untidied
- Past participle
- untidied
- -ing form
- untidying
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His face was disturbed and troubled, while his clothes were disarranged and untidy.
An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affected a certain quiet primness of dress, he was none the less in his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction.
Watson to find himself once more in the untidy room of the first floor in Baker Street which had been the starting-point of so many remarkable adventures.
It looks untidy, does it not, sir?”
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