Sentence examples for hardly neat from inspiring English sources

The experience is powerful, but hardly neat.

The transition in Madison, while long foretold — The Capital Times was doubly part of a dying breed, being the afternoon paper in a two-newspaper town — has hardly been neat and clean and cathartic.

We all know that the subway is hardly that neat.

Herb had occupied the office for over a decade, and it was, to put it kindly, hardly the epitome of neat organization.

This is a neat trick, yet hardly original.

The Apple Watch is characterized as a neat device, but hardly a necessary one: a wearable gizmo that may delight the phone-obsessed despite its flaws.

The plot is hardly labyrinthine and there's no neat resolution, but Kureishi's blunt treatment of race, politics and sexuality is sure to grab the reader's attention as he confronts uncomfortable home truths about British attitudes towards foreigners.

"Of course," said a woman in a neat navy blue mac, "we hardly know anything about Jane Austen.

I don't use the decommissioned toilet but aim a neat stream into the sink drain, hardly splashing the basin.

Neat packets of crispy rice pastry, hardly bigger than Scrabble tiles, somehow manage to contain a stuffing of sweet shrimp, crab meat, pork, shitake mushrooms and crunchy jicama.

That three Venezuelan pitchers teamed in such strong fashion to start the season was a neat touch for the Mets but hardly a surprise, considering how many players they have on their roster who were born outside the 50 states.