messily

comparative more messily · superlative most messily

1. In a messy manner; sloppily, shoddily.

   The Commander's aim was off sending it messily over the back of the sensor officer's bulbous head instead.

   2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 19

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   The 40-year-old [Mike Skinner] is happy to put his body on the line in other ways, swapping a mug of tea for a fan's double pint of lager and messily necking it in one.

   2019 January 26, Kitty Empire [pseudonym], “The Streets review – the agony and ecstasy of a great everyman”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2019