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Meanings of topsy-turvydom in English
Synonyms
Examples for "chaos"
Examples for "chaos"
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Attacks at sea have increased this year as chaos has mounted onshore.
2
Nicholas, you should come home more often; the city is in chaos.
3
You might expect chaos and disruption given the impending week of freedom.
4
She was hearing reports of unchecked violence, widespread chaos, thousands presumed dead.
5
However, the other abiding rule is that order is better than chaos.
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During the pandemonium, the voice in the trumpet was proceeding quite unperturbed.
2
At a quarter-past eight in the dressing-rooms of the Gaiety, pandemonium reigned.
3
There was pandemonium behind him in camp and ahead of him nothing.
4
Merry pandemonium broke out among the onlookers; they howled with shameless delight.
5
We'll get back to pandemonium and computer hacking over dinner, of course.
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And others have been described as being in a state of bedlam.
2
He of them all was the only raving bedlam against the saints.
3
Men begin discussing with one another excitedly; there is a perfect bedlam.
4
Michael alone made no sound, suffering dumbly in the bedlam of misery.
5
The result of the fourth ballot was announced, and bedlam broke loose.
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But for this topsy-turvyness, this folly, this immorality, we must not blame love, but those who persistently thwarted love-ortried to thwart it.
2
This discovery gave the world a strange new topsy-turvyness, and set Millner's theories spinning about his brain like the cabin furniture of a tossing ship.
3
"Barring a certain little topsy-turvyness which is something out of the ordinary, I'd call that a charming bit of-Greatguns and little cannon-balls!
Usage of topsy-turvydom in English
1
How soon are our friends likely to discover this topsy-turvydom?
2
We see a domestic topsy-turvydom in many Japanese sketches.
3
The revolution, if it brought topsy-turvydom in politics, like its great forerunner '89 brought the apogee of song.
4
He felt more sentimental than he cared to show, and the topsy-turvydom of the room made him fidgety.
5
But despite the topsy-turvydom, we were made welcome, and both Phillips and Smith did their best to entertain.
6
Their first feeling was that they had come out into eternity, and that eternity was very like topsy-turvydom.
7
Not a little perplexed was Cynthia at the topsy-turvydom in which that morning she had found her father's house.
8
But wherever trees and towns hang head downwards in a pigmy puddle, the sense of Celestial topsy-turvydom is the same.
9
But innovations which tend to bring about a kind of social topsy-turvydom, ought only to be undertaken by general consent.
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But this new spiritual dread was a more awful thing than had been the mere spiritual topsy-turvydom symbolised by the paralytic who pursued him.
Translations for topsy-turvydom
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