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Example sentences for "untidy"

Lexicographically close words:
unthreshed; unthrift; unthrifty; untidily; untidiness; untie; untied; unties; until; untill
  1. He went to his tumbled bunk in a corner, sat down on it, thrusting the box out of sight under the untidy heap of dirty bedding.

  2. Over their breakfast in the little wayside restaurant, with its untidy tables and greasy lunch-counter, it was Gratton who did all of the talking.

  3. The child was ill-kept, and grew up anyhow in the garden, or in the large rooms left untidy in sheer despair, amidst broken toys, uncleanliness and destruction.

  4. He was wrapped in a very dirty old green coat, that made him look like an untidy cabman.

  5. You never greeted him with a ragged or untidy dress or soiled hands.

  6. The finest attire and decorations will add nothing to the appearance or beauty of an untidy person.

  7. It was still raining hard, and the long, narrow, untidy street was still as dirty and disagreeable as ever; otherwise there was no resemblance in it to the street of the last few days.

  8. He was singular looking indeed, this untidy young man, whose ill-kept clothes had a look of insecurity, like arrested avalanches on a mountain.

  9. Between the stove and the other door stood the table, which held the dishes at which worked the neat, quick mother and her rather untidy and idle daughters.

  10. This place was nothing but a humble, disused, and untidy burying-ground, that occupied the next lot in the narrow strip of land that here for a mile divided road and river.

  11. The windows and doors were filled with the vacant faces of the untidy children of the poor white trash and negroes.

  12. Over the breast of a long, loose, untidy linen duster he had spread the crimson sash, as he was officer of the day.

  13. Not to look untidy with a fiery mop of a head, yet to be a little beautiful, oh joy, beautiful, to please him.

  14. I withdraw hastily from the springtime window because when a gentle flame ran over my wrist I became aware of lack of dignity: my untidy hair, the dust on me, the disorderly room.

  15. It was a narrow, untidy room, with dull green coloured walls, badly lighted by two dusty windows.

  16. Some of them were built on piles, and seemed to stand on stilts, holding their draggled skirts out of the mud of their untidy yards: some sagged on rotting sills, leaning shoulder to shoulder as if to prop one another up.

  17. The General this morning was a cheery untidy old soul, who reviewed the troops in an old mackintosh and gum boots and a day's beard, or I should think the result of a bad razor.

  18. Rotten billets are usually only given to troops who leave their billets untidy when they leave.

  19. No officer, after being relieved, is entitled to retain an untidy appearance longer than is necessary.

  20. Returning the ensign's salute, the executive officer next regarded Darrin's untidy appearance with some displeasure.

  21. Muriel was an untidy little scamp when he went away, and she’s an untidy little scamp now he’s come back.

  22. Through the windows could be seen a neglected bit of garden, and an untidy orchard.

  23. Who's the woman with the leathery complexion and the belt to match, and the untidy hair and the big feet?

  24. It appeared that the aborigines were especially favored in that they were all placed at one long, untidy table at the head of the room.

  25. A girl of thirteen, with her somewhat colourless hair in untidy braids, and a flannel bandage high about her throat, came downstairs at the sound of Julia's entrance.

  26. They found him idle, in a bright, untidy office, lined with the pictures of stage favourites, and with three windows open to the sun and air.

  27. Close by stood the prompter, an untidy youth with imperfections of teeth, clutching hard at the red-scored manuscript of "The Orient Pearl.

  28. The streets are as untidy as the houses; garbage is dumped in the unfinished roadways; and in or out of your hotel you will seek comfort in vain.

  29. Untidy but flamboyant, it is reckless of the laws by which life is lived elsewhere.

  30. You must untidy yourself a bit when we get into the train," said Molly.

  31. Mrs. Finnigan threw open the door of a very untidy and small room.

  32. He drew an impatient sigh, and began to fill his pipe, gazing through the rain-stained window under which his untidy desk stood.

  33. I had to wait for some time, and then the door was opened by an impudent-looking servant girl in a very untidy dress.

  34. He was staring straight in front of him, a strangely woe-begone figure with his thatch of untidy hair and round goggle eyes.

  35. It is not untidy for me, because I can put my hand on everything that I want.

  36. As I could repeat the Henriade from beginning to end, I must have been untidy pretty often.

  37. I remember when a child I had curious punishments; for being untidy I had twenty lines of Henriade to learn by heart, or a French fable.

  38. He flung over an untidy pile of music, and dragged out the magnificently devilish "Enchantement" of Massenet.

  39. Then he "tidied" the bed with masculine pulls and jerks till it was even more untidy than before, and went back to his chair.

  40. Do you think your hat is on straight, you untidy little trollop?

  41. Vardri went out still coughing, and came back flushed and excitable, laden with various untidy parcels, from which some of the contents were protruding.

  42. There was one thing more, a sheet of paper covered closely with an untidy scrawl.

  43. While being lived in and used, a drawing-room is and must be essentially a best room, and is invaluable as a teacher to the untidy or unmethodical mistress or servant.

  44. Then, in bedrooms and sitting-rooms alike, I have the most delightful tiny brass hooks on which I hang a hearth-brush, for I have an immense dislike to an untidy and dirty hearth.

  45. I'd be ashamed to have a sign-board in front of my steps, saying, 'An untidy girl lives here!

  46. The fuel room should have several bins, one for kitchen coal, one for furnace coal, and one low one for wood; it was untidy to leave any of these lying in heaps on the floor.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "untidy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bedraggled; botched; bungling; careless; chintzy; clumsy; deficient; dilapidated; dingy; dirty; disheveled; disorderly; disreputable; draggled; dusty; frowzy; grimy; grubby; haphazard; informal; loose; messy; miry; muddy; mussy; negligent; poky; promiscuous; ragged; ruinous; scraggly; seedy; shabby; shaggy; shoddy; slack; slatternly; slipshod; sloppy; slovenly; sluttish; smoky; smudgy; smutty; snuffy; sooty; sordid; squalid; tacky; tattered; uncombed; unkempt; unsightly; untidy