The word "clutter" is considered correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word "clutter" to refer to a mess of objects or items that are scattered untidily. For example, "My bedroom was filled with clutter and I had to spend a few hours tidying it up."
"We have to build up from the base blocks – strip it back and then allow the clutter to develop.
He has tried to block global warming being included on the agenbda for the G20 summit in Brisbane in November (Australia is in the chair), calling it "clutter".
If digitisation holds out the promise of every word ever written being cleanly stored on servers, unwieldy bricks made of paper and cardboard can easily fall into the dreaded modern category of "clutter".
Nassim Taleb, the intellectual and author of Black Swan, says in his earlier book Fooled by Randomness that we should favour information "that is stripped of meaningless but diverting clutter".
Like so much of the clutter strewn around me, the packet had remained unopened.
The kitchen surfaces were clean of clutter except for a two-litre bottle of Coca Cola, a minibar vodka and a packet of Tesco apples.
The idea of tidying up our lives, ridding ourselves of material clutter, is ancient and enduring, a practical and emotional goal we're constantly trying to achieve – check out "storage solutions" on Pinterest to see almost fetish-like homages to tidiness.
That's the tough part: now that I live in such an ordered oasis I must resist the urge to hoard more clutter behind cupboard doors.
Enter The Minimalists, Ryan Nicodemus and Joshua Fields Millburn, who believe that without the abundant clutter of material possessions you're free to prioritise the stuff that matters: family, hobbies and passion projects.
We have considered additional adjustments and different transition models, which look at proportional rather than absolute swings, but felt that these wouldn't provide a noticeable systematic advantage to the approach we have adopted, while instead adding considerable complexity and clutter to our model.
They may be the trophies that every scientist, actor or athlete dreams of winning, but sometimes even the world's top awards are just clutter.
