Muddlesome
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Muddlesome is an adjective meaning Characterised or marked by muddling; confusing, lacking in order; tending to muddle.
Meaning
Characterised or marked by muddling; confusing, lacking in order; tending to muddle.
Example Sentences
Without this, all social concern will be muddlesome meddling, and all work for the future will be planned disaster.
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.
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
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include muddly, muddy, muddleheaded, muddle-headed, muddled, confused.
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