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Meanings of topsy-turvy in English
Spanish
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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.
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.
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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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We have to eat all hugger-mugger with the clerks and carpenters.
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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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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.
Usage of topsy-turvy in English
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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.
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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.
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The outing of the Alignment has turned the galaxy's political framework topsy-turvy.
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AT the home of the Blanchards, everything is topsy-turvy, and with reason.
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Momentum could easily swing again in what has been a topsy-turvy campaign.
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The law of gravity ought not to be topsy-turvy here at Ahaggar.
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Such was the topsy-turvy morality of Baghdad in the spring of 2003.
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I feel strong and virile enough to tip Mars topsy-turvy, I said.
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To any one acquainted with humanity this way of talking is topsy-turvy.
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I was gone just half an hour, and everything has gone topsy-turvy.
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She feels as if she were going to turn topsy-turvy each roll.
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Illusions, mistakes, and guiltless remorse, were the consequence of this topsy-turvy work.
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Why, even for a day things would be all topsy-turvy without me.