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adj. dirty and disorderly; "a mussy fussy bedroom"; "a child's messy eating habits"

adj. overcrowded or cluttered with detail; "a busy painting"; "a fussy design"

adj. overfilled or compacted or concentrated; "a crowded theater"; "a crowded program"; "crowded trains"; "a young mother's crowded days"

flowery, ornate

adj. marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton

embellished, ornamented, ornate

adj. rich in decorative detail

haphazard, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy

adj. marked by great carelessness; "a most haphazard system of record keeping"; "slapdash work"; "slipshod spelling"; "sloppy workmanship"

dirty, soiled, unclean

adj. soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"

ungroomed

adj. not neat and smart in appearance; "he was wrinkled and ungroomed, with a two-day beard"; "ungroomed hair"

disarrayed

adj. in disarray; "disarrayed bedclothes"

rippled, ruffled

adj. shaken into waves or undulations as by wind; "the rippled surface of the pond"; "with ruffled flags flying"

crumpled, creased, rumpled, wrinkled

adj. marked by wrinkles; "tired travelers in wrinkled clothes"

grubby

adj. infested with grubs

tattered, tatterdemalion

adj. worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing; "a man in a tattered shirt"; "the tattered flag"; "tied up in tattered brown paper"; "a tattered barefoot boy"; "a tatterdemalion prince"

frowsy, frowzy, slovenly

adj. negligent of neatness especially in dress and person; habitually dirty and unkempt; "filled the door with her frowzy bulk"; "frowzy white hair"; "slovenly appearance"

boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly

adj. noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; "a boisterous crowd"; "a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand"; "a robustious group of teenagers"; "beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings"; "an unruly class"

raucous, rowdy

adj. disturbing the public peace; loud and rough; "a raucous party"; "rowdy teenagers"

disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, topsy-turvy

adj. in utter disorder; "a disorderly pile of clothes"

rough-and-tumble, bare-knuckle, bare-knuckled

adj. characterized by disorderly action and disregard for rules; "a rough-and-tumble fight"; "rough-and-tumble politics"; "undisguised bare-knuckle capitalism"

orderly

adj. devoid of violence or disruption; "an orderly crowd confronted the president"

straight, square

adj. characterized by honesty and fairness; "straight dealing"; "a square deal"

tidy

adj. marked by order and cleanliness in appearance or habits; "a tidy person"; "a tidy house"; "a tidy mind"

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