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messily
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial messily has 1 sense
- messily(r = adv.all) untidily - in a messy, untidy manner; "Rossi spat very deliberately, and very messily, upon Durieux's party card"
THESAURUS
messily
airily, any old way, any which way, anyhow, bunglingly, carelessly, casually, clumsily, cursorily, disregardfully, forgetfully, haphazardly, heedlessly, helter-skelter, hit and miss, hit or miss, inattentively, inconsiderately, offhand, offhandedly, once over lightly, perfunctorily, promiscuously, recklessly, regardlessly, slapdash, sloppily, tactlessly, thoughtlessly, unguardedly, unheedfully, unheedingly, unmindfully, unsolicitously, unthinkingly, unvigilantly, unwarily
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