messily

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.85 in modern English

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adv

"The Commander's aim was off sending it messily over the back of the sensor officer's bulbous head instead."
"The 40-year-old [Mike Skinner] is happy to put his body on the line in other ways, swapping a mug of tea for a fan's double pint of lager and messily necking it in one."

Etymology tree English messy Middle English -ly English -ly English messily From messy + -ly.

more messily (comparative) most messily (superlative)

untidily

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