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Mitchell sprawls untidily across Canberra's grassy northern plain.
But the generals might not like that either, because one of their bogeys, the pro-Kurdish People's Democracy Party, would then probably get seats.Every way you look, the upshot is untidily fluid.
BUILT untidily on the slopes of a ravine that tumbles down from the altiplano 4,000 metres (13,100 feet) above sea level, La Paz is an urban planner's nightmare.
He wore a cheap pin-stripe suit, with a waistcoat fastened untidily over his girth, and a white shirt.
See how untidily this disclosure fits into my narrative?
His intensity is too untidily contained, evident in his harried gait on the streets outside his office (he does not drive), in his voracious consumption of audiobooks (played at two or three times the normal speed, to maximize efficiency), and his fastidious guarding against illnesses (he avoids handshakes and wipes down silverware beneath a tablecloth).
Meanwhile, former free-market true believers in the Bush Administration have tossed out money from the public vault like looters, and just as untidily ; if they can sort out exactly what they have done, the Treasury's mandarins must soon prepare PowerPoint presentations to document for their successors the most expansive nationalizations undertaken in the United States since the Second World War.
In the city, which spreads untidily over a promontory on West Africa's Atlantic coast, a plethora of evangelical signs are a reminder of the important role that American Protestant missionaries have always played in Liberia.
Lucian Freud "courted danger, took risks and lived a lusty libidinous life, but often indefinably and untidily ," Greig writes, in this admiring but acerbic biography of the painter.
On each table was a bottle of Mackinlay's Rare Old Highland Malt Whisky, tucked in a box packed untidily with straw to evoke the sense of discovery of a long-forgotten treasure.
Eberstadt's mildly melancholy coda to her dire portrait of contemporary European Gypsies leaves us with the mollifying impression that all parties end untidily , all lives are more or less muddles, and we all are, as the French officially term nomadic minorities, "gens du voyage".
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The adverb "untidily " modifies verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs to describe the manner in which an action is performed. It indicates a lack of neatness or order. As noted by Ludwig AI, it's grammatically correct and usable.
Expression frequency: Common
