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Meanings of hugger-mugger in English
Conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods.
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Examples for "disorderly"
Examples for "disorderly"
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A disorderly default would result in substantially higher losses for the system.
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Photo: RNZ A police spokesperson said the arrests were for disorderly behaviour.
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The discordant vocalising of the drunk and disorderly in the next cell.
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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.
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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.
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She was feeling so many emotions jumbled together: happiness, surprise, curiosity, confusion.
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Routes that have ledges or jumbled features, or wander, are good candidates.
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Yes, sir, the same day; and her things are lying about higgledy-piggledy.
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They set off in a higgledy-piggledy fashion, each striking out for himself.
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They were pretty close, advancing higgledy-piggledy across the fields and firing.
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They are not so much arranged about one another as superposed and higgledy-piggledy.
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Fatima Shah, the butcher's wife, remembers closing the rose-print curtains of her higgledy-piggledy house.
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In half an hour he had caught up with the topsy-turvy caravan.
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The camel is a topsy-turvy ship and the ostrich a topsy-turvy bird.
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Much had been made of the topsy-turvy nature of the much-hyped contest.
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For awhile it seemed to me that the whole world was topsy-turvy.
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But all shame is extinct in France, and everything is turned topsy-turvy.
Usage of hugger-mugger in English
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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."
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As they thought, hid in hugger-mugger, each accusing the other of being a racist.
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Nor is the New Yorker a hugger-mugger with his money.
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Well, I thought it would be all of a hugger-mugger.
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Between now and then there will be plenty of hugger-mugger.
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Muddle flies before it, and hugger-mugger becomes a thing unknown.
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Its ordinary hugger-mugger had been cleared away-pushedback into corners and out of sight.
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There was no hugger-mugger escape of travel-clad bride and bridegroom.
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Naturally, I refused, not wanting to seem to be too hugger-mugger with a famous entrepreneur.
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Let alone his meals being all hugger-mugger and comfortless.
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What was it like saying goodbye to crew mates he'd lived hugger-mugger with for so long?
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Why should she think us a hugger-mugger family?
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It is all hugger-mugger, with miss a-leaving.
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The trial was all mystery, hugger-mugger, horror.