messily

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Examples

• Would he have been careful enough to destroy the odd pieces of jute you've left so messily about?

• Instead, it just grooves along, almost messily, sounding like what it's about: sex.

• A rip or two in his undertunic, a shallow cut from his bush knife allowed to bleed messily.

• Terry was holding the pies so tightly in her fright that her fingers punctured the crust and went messily into the fruit beneath.

• Women have nursed the messily ill and dying, and have tended ghastly wounds during ages of time.