muddlesome
Adjective
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002
Adjective
muddlesome
- Characterised or marked by muddling; confusing, lacking in order; tending to muddle.
- 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
- 1952, C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Collins, 1998, Chapter 10,
- 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.
- 1966, Alan Watts, The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, New York: Vintage, 1989, Chapter 5, p. 116,
- Without this, all social concern will be muddlesome meddling, and all work for the future will be planned disaster.
- 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,
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002