'untidiness' in the choreography of the restructuring of the balance sheets of the financial institutions. From Wordnik.com. [RTÉ News] Reference
Her slovenliness and untidiness did not trouble him. From Wordnik.com. [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference
In spite of its untidiness, this was a beautiful room. From Wordnik.com. [There's Something In A Sunday]
La pauvre amie was always angry at the untidiness here. From Wordnik.com. [The Possessed] Reference
One of the challenges of studying history is its untidiness. From Wordnik.com. [Sayings and Slogans of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge] Reference
My only hope of salvation lay in an affectation of untidiness. From Wordnik.com. [Youth] Reference
In a word, the confusion and untidiness of the room were indescribable. From Wordnik.com. [The Idiot] Reference
Katie could be untidy on occasions; but her very untidiness was inviting. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Clerks] Reference
Ruth that no least bit of dirt or untidiness ever escaped those gray eyes. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia] Reference
His untidiness drove her wild; her meticulous housekeeping drove him wild. From Wordnik.com. [While Other People Sleep]
Gone were the various piles of paper, the pleasant, controlled untidiness. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
Occasionally she sniffed in disgust at the general untidiness of the place. From Wordnik.com. [Hepsey Burke] Reference
Then, for the wretched untidiness surrounding her, there could be no excuse. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
For all its untidiness, the Columbia deal was typically Japanese in one sense. From Wordnik.com. [Sweet Smell Of Excess] Reference
Try to have nobody here and no untidiness, for the place isn't fit to be seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Possessed] Reference
The other sat, noting with faint disapproval the general untidiness of the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference
It would not do now, at this moment, for Norah to offend her lover by any untidiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Clerks] Reference
Scouts who had cost their patrols points through untidiness were upbraided by their comrades. From Wordnik.com. [Don Strong, Patrol Leader] Reference
Without his scrapbooks, his chemicals, and his homely untidiness, he was an uncomfortable man. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of the Three Students.] Reference
So our first thought was one of scandalised amazement at the extreme untidiness of the business. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918] Reference
The offence in No. 45 is more the result of untidiness than of a lack of artistic discrimination. From Wordnik.com. [What Dress Makes of Us] Reference
The burden is simply that of acknowledging the untidiness of theoretical resolutions in this area. From Wordnik.com. [A lecture given at a conference on 'The place of Covenant in Judaism, Christianity and Jewish-Christian relations' Centre for the Study of Jewish Christian Relations, Cambridge] Reference
But then who is there that can bear so total a disguise as filth and untidiness spread over a woman?. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
We went to his study for coffee, a jolly room full of books and trophies and untidiness and comfort. From Wordnik.com. [The Thirty-Nine Steps] Reference
The Admiral was surrounded by scattered newspapers, his only concession to untidiness in the immaculate room. From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
She was like a hostess embarrassed in front of her guests by the squalor of her home, the untidiness of her children. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Splendid Suns]
Sergius and Irina were gone; but, as their belongings were scattered about in the usual untidiness, Ivan argued return. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
I tremble when I think that some day his Excellency may perceive my untidiness, and say — well, what will he NOT say?. From Wordnik.com. [Poor Folk] Reference
For the sake of the light in her eager eyes, much crudity of expression and some untidiness of person were forgiven her. From Wordnik.com. [Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf] Reference
The oil wells in the south have been secured, quote/unquote, but there again, there could be some untidiness as we go forward. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2003] Reference
“Brownie” did his job as expected (although the untidiness in New Orleans presented some short-term political discomfort). From Wordnik.com. [Bush/Cheney in '08?] Reference
There was no suspicion of affectation about that good man; yet I regarded his untidiness as a defect, and not as an excellence. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861] Reference
I noted the poverty, the untidiness, the want of system and thrift, that existed about the cabin, notwithstanding his knowledge of. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue] Reference
In thickly settled districts among the poor and uneducated, where filth and untidiness reign, the "itch" is a very prominent disease. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
Why, you go out with buttons loose, or entirely off your dress, or your frocks unmended, not to speak of the untidiness of your room. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls] Reference
The unthinking untidiness and active penknives of the holiday makers made it recently necessary for the grounds to be closed to strangers. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
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