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messily

/mes-uh-lee/US // ˈmɛs ə li //

乱七八糟的,混乱地,混乱的,乱七八糟

Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a messy manner.

Examples

  • Would he have been careful enough to destroy the odd pieces of jute you've left so messily about?

  • Instead, it just grooves along, almost messily, sounding like what it's about: sex.

  • A rip or two in his undertunic, a shallow cut from his bush knife allowed to bleed messily.

  • Terry was holding the pies so tightly in her fright that her fingers punctured the crust and went messily into the fruit beneath.

  • Women have nursed the messily ill and dying, and have tended ghastly wounds during ages of time.