"messy figure" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a numerical value that is difficult to interpret. For example, you could say, "The messy figure, with its decimals, was too complicated for me to calculate."
Nobody likes a messy library! Figure out where to place your library.
And thus did her hopes of a quick fix turn into a messy six-figure, two-year event.
I don't know, everyone will be making messy wax figures that move.
I've always been on the latter end of the curve when it comes to trends so I'm probably not the best person to ask...I don't know, everyone will be making messy wax figures that move.
You can make your comic artistically detailed or use messy stick figures.
"What's messy is to figure out how to apply antitrust when technology and the market are both changing rapidly".
And even if the data are messier than this figure suggests, it is not unreasonable to suppose that the vast weight of grammatically well-formed utterances would easily swamp any residual noise.
By tinkering with an algorithm devised in 2009, they figured out how to extract information about a particle's orientation from just a messy 2D diffraction pattern.
Few political candidates have the chairman of Google on their digital advisory board; most are tiny one-man startup shops with little technical expertise and even less time to figure out the messy world of social media.
Claude Bébéar, chairman of the French insurer AXA and the Vivendi director who was a central figure in Mr. Messier's removal, will head a new board committee on finance; he and Mr. Fourtou have begun drawing up a short list of candidates for Mr. Hannezo's post, the people close to the company said.
