Sentence examples for untidy state from inspiring English sources

On entry it was discovered in a very untidy state.

Tashjian is distressed that Bernier's film reveals the untidy state her house was found in while she was in the hospital.

As a furniture retailer claimed last week that one in three arguments between parents is caused by the untidy state of their children's bedrooms, I was reminded again that tidiness can be contentious.

Eventually the body corporate sent me a formal letter of complaint about the untidy state of my flat's externals (this will amuse many; I'm the neatest, most ordered person they know).

During the "Happy Working Song" musical sequence, described as one of the film's "large scale production numbers", Giselle, who is very much appalled by the untidy state of Robert's Manhattan apartment, decides to "repay ... the favour" by taking the liberty of confronting and cleaning up the apartment's mess herself.

But, as Lawrence James says about the British variety in his book, "The Middle Class: A History", they are "a sprawling, untidy organism in a perpetual state of evolution".For example, Kellee Tsai, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, argues that there is no such thing as a coherent middle class in China.

From Dictionary.com: something untidy or overfilled with objects a state or condition of confusion.

SEEN from the state's point of view, multiple citizenship is at best untidy and at worst a menace.

But back in the shell-shocked state of Florida, there remains this election's unfinished and untidy business.

According to court documents, between 2007 and 2011, the state imposed 70,000 isolation sentences for offenses like having an "untidy cell or person," or for "littering," "unfastened long hair" or an "unreported illness".

And, judging by the state of Timothy's home in north London, they've yet to iron the untidy kink out of British life.