ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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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