Definition of “messy”

An attack of laryngitis forced her to drop her voice on television one night, while attempting to explain away something messy in Belfast.

Crudely coloured glass balls hung higgledy-piggledy from a real Christmas tree which shed messy spikes from the moment it was in place.

Electricity has become a scourge for millions of North Americans jostled by their governments ' messy experiments with deregulation.

I was married but went through a very messy divorce three years ago.

Many people find it either too much of an effort to ask these questions, or too messy , boring, or irrelevant.

Not even Canada's Wonderland is safe in this charming, messy , harebrained tale.

One messy murder, evidently provoked by anger of frustration or desperation.

The reading matter on the floor he returned to a shelf in a messy bunch.

There is an unavoidable conflict between the reductionist approach of medicine and the messy , political, and complex world of policy.