adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Another problem is that the chains in polyacetylene are not neatly ordered, but convoluted and higgledy-piggledy .
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He glanced at all the bits of paper hanging higgledy-piggledy on the furniture and walls.
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Ideally it should be laid in a fine carpet and not in higgledy-piggledy lumps that bream can break down to easy mouthfuls.
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She collected up the letters and stuffed them back, higgledy-piggledy , into their brown paper and cardboard nest.
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These had been thrown into the Muniment Room in the most higgledy-piggledy manner over at least two centuries.
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They lay about higgledy-piggledy but were obviously intended to be set up as practice jumps.