muddlesome

Definitions

Characterised or marked by muddling; confusing, lacking in order; tending to muddle.

Examples

“1945, Lawrence Wolfe, The Reilly Plan⟳: A New Way of Life, London: Nicholson & Watson, cited by George Orwell in a review⟳ published in Tribune, 25 January, 1946, in Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus (eds.), The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Volume IV, London: Secker & Warburg, 1968, p. 91, […] the abolition of the muddlesome, costly and wasteful apparatus of the kitchen”

“Lucy peered at the pictures with her face⟳ close⟳ to the page, and though they had seemed crowded and muddlesome before, she found she could now see⟳ them quite clearly.”

“Without this, all social concern⟳ will be muddlesome meddling, and all work⟳ for the future will be planned disaster.”

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