The phrase "untidy life" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a lifestyle that is disorganized or chaotic.
Example: "After years of neglect, I finally decided to take control of my untidy life and start fresh."
Alternatives: "disorderly life" or "chaotic life."
L. continued to play in tournaments all over Europe, living a rather untidy life.
It was filled with untidy life; Tintoretto made the scene chaotic rather than redemptive or noble.
Until the war, we are told, the Colleys "lived an untidy life and were improvident and argumentative and content".
It's a rare thing for her to coast or do anything other than suggest an untidy life in wild bloom behind her few lines.
It gets uglier as the years pass and eventually morphs into a vortex of chaos, a tidy metaphor for an untidy life and - yes - abstractions have concrete meanings.
"Once we remove ourselves form the flow of physical, messy, untidy life — and both robotics and networked life do that — we become less willing to get out there and take a chance," she writes.
Despite their untidy family life, or maybe because of it, copepods have the power to fascinate, Dr. Ohman said.
It's possible to believe that Ondaatje's method of mosaic more accurately reflects the untidy turns life tends to take; his characters make unfortunate decisions but then, so do we.
Pity them, reader, for being unable to embrace such a loud shout of glorious, untidy, angry, joyous life.
This fascination, however, belonged merely to Tolstoy's genius as a polemicist and public figure; his real fascination lay with the complex and untidy and unpredictable life that lay between the two poles.
He is at his best when he is letting uproariously untidy human life leak in (the more disadvantaged the better), and less interesting when it is just buildings, canal, buildings and the human element is little more than a decorous adjunct to the scene.
