Sentence examples for be untidy from inspiring English sources

"M [her mother] tried to make me tidy, D liked me to be untidy". In 1937, Hilda and Stanley divorced, and Stanley married Patricia.

Within the narrative that she is (perhaps teasingly) eschewing, she provides enough "storyless" space to let her characters contradict themselves and be untidy and likeable and funny.

Mrs. Clinton's top advisers said that while her management style might be untidy, it showed her to be comfortable with conflicting ideas among her aides.

The prose can be untidy to the point of vagueness: "In her memoir, Gracie gives her wedding night the faint virtue of having avoided the Victorian bride's trauma in the hands of a clumsy husband".

With the gloves, he took plenty of catches and showed real athleticism on pitches that were never straightforward for keeping, but he could be untidy at times – this failing showing up more when his colleagues in the cordon are dropping catches or leaving them to fly by.

Conservative parishes tend to be richer than the liberal-minded ones, especially in England, where the Anglican church is in headlong decline (see article).All that will be untidy.

The men were untidy and unattractive.

Her hair is untidy, curly, perhaps hennaed.

We are committed to this idea although it's untidy and unbrandable at the moment.

Parents threaten young children with her presence if they are untidy or misbehaved.

Some work is untidy and written work is often too short or incomplete," their report said.