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muddlesome

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Characterised or marked by muddling; confusing, lacking in order; tending to muddle.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1945, Lawrence Wolfe, The Reilly Plan: A New Way of Life, London: Nicholson & Watson, cited by George Orwell in a review published in Tribune, 25 January, 1946, in Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus (eds.), The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell, Volume IV, London: Secker & Warburg, 1968, p. 91, [...] the abolition of the muddlesome, costly and wasteful apparatus of the kitchen

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History

Etymology

From muddle + -some.