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Meanings of higgledy-piggledy in anglès
Synonyms
Examples for "disorderly"
Examples for "disorderly"
1
A disorderly default would result in substantially higher losses for the system.
2
Photo: RNZ A police spokesperson said the arrests were for disorderly behaviour.
3
The discordant vocalising of the drunk and disorderly in the next cell.
4
He pleaded guilty to a reduced disorderly conduct charge in that case.
5
One person was arrested at Auckland Domain yesterday morning for disorderly behaviour.
1
However, the rise of Earl Sliney as the possible shooter jumbled things.
2
We'll camp here.' He indicated the jumbled rocks by the river bank.
3
The bones were jumbled together, the result of continual tremors and eruptions.
4
She was feeling so many emotions jumbled together: happiness, surprise, curiosity, confusion.
5
Routes that have ledges or jumbled features, or wander, are good candidates.
1
We have to eat all hugger-mugger with the clerks and carpenters.
2
I don't want to hear any more about corporate hugger-mugger.
3
The various departments are said to be in a state of "hugger-mugger."
4
As they thought, hid in hugger-mugger, each accusing the other of being a racist.
5
Nor is the New Yorker a hugger-mugger with his money.
1
In half an hour he had caught up with the topsy-turvy caravan.
2
The camel is a topsy-turvy ship and the ostrich a topsy-turvy bird.
3
Much had been made of the topsy-turvy nature of the much-hyped contest.
4
For awhile it seemed to me that the whole world was topsy-turvy.
5
But all shame is extinct in France, and everything is turned topsy-turvy.
Usage of higgledy-piggledy in anglès
1
Yes, sir, the same day; and her things are lying about higgledy-piggledy.
2
They set off in a higgledy-piggledy fashion, each striking out for himself.
3
They were pretty close, advancing higgledy-piggledy across the fields and firing.
4
They are not so much arranged about one another as superposed and higgledy-piggledy.
5
Fatima Shah, the butcher's wife, remembers closing the rose-print curtains of her higgledy-piggledy house.
6
They stood higgledy-piggledy, one on top of another, and they were all very dusty.
7
These slept higgledy-piggledy on skins, with their dogs amongst them.
8
They lay scattered higgledy-piggledy, whole handfuls of them, crooked and straight, brown and black.
9
Thick thwack, cut and hack, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, head-over-heels, rough-and-tumble!
10
Thick, thwack, cut and hack, helter-skelter, higgledy-piggledy, hurly-burly, heads-over-heels, rough-and-tumble!
11
The doors of the sideboard stood wide with its contents scattered higgledy-piggledy on the carpet.
12
Every five years we built a little bit, higgledy-piggledy.
13
Not that all the vast accumulation needs to be thrown pell-mell, higgledy-piggledy into the discard.
14
Only glimpses of a higgledy-piggledy of assorted wares were to be caught behind the panes.
15
The walls had a gap here, roughly choked up by a higgledy-piggledy heap of rubbish.
16
I am writing higgledy-piggledy, as I re-read your letter.