UNTIDILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does untidily mean? 

• UNTIDILY (adverb)
  The adverb UNTIDILY has 1 sense:

1. in a messy, untidy manner

  Familiarity information: UNTIDILY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNTIDILY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a messy, untidy manner

Synonyms:

messily; untidily

Context example:

Rossi spat very deliberately, and very messily, upon Durieux's party card

Pertainym:

untidy (not neat and tidy)

 Context examples 

On reaching the bedroom, we heard the voice of Miss Scatcherd: she was examining drawers; she had just pulled out Helen Burns's, and when we entered Helen was greeted with a sharp reprimand, and told that to-morrow she should have half-a-dozen of untidily folded articles pinned to her shoulder.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)