Definition of "messily" [messily]

• In a messy manner; sloppily, shoddily. (adverb)

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• "Breathing heavily, heart pounding, he ran into the bathroom and drank messily from the faucet."
• "The movie makes sure we understand just how mundane the Queen is, showing her rising messily from a bed, sharing a quiet snark among friends, walking in her wellies and a scarf tied around her head — there’s no distant glory here, just a woman living a sometimes-difficult life."
• "He paused, attempting to remind himself of what it was in its original form, recalling messily a black woman (in place of the Latina woman) seeing a Marcus Garvey poster (or was it W. E. B. DuBois?) raising her arm and shouting in exultation."