Meaning of misarray | Babel Free

Definitions

disarray; disorder; confusion

uncountable

Examples

“Then uproar wild and misarray/ Marr'd the fair form⟳ of festal day.”

“If need⟳ be, madam, sweep⟳ the room But leave⟳ my desk in misarray: So even in my den at Doom If need⟳ be, madam, sweep⟳ the room And gather me with but a broom.”

“But for me, even worse than the stilted dialogue, the stagy direction and theatrically artificial “acting”, were the totally disconcerting jump⟳ cuts between the studio scenes – artfully misdirected by Anthony Kimmins against an incredible misarray of outrageously phoney backdrops — and the location footage, into which a lot of money was obviously poured on hordes of costumed extras.”

“She thanked Thyruid and rubbed her hair free from the excess water, leaving her head in a twisted, tousled misarray.”

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