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muddlesome en · ADJ

Etymology

From muddle + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by muddling; confusing, lacking in order; tending to muddle.
   • Without this, all social concern will be muddlesome meddling, and all work for the future will be planned disaster. 1966, Alan Watts, chapter 5, in The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, New York: Vintage, published 1989, page 116:
   • Lucy peered at the pictures with her face close to the page, and though they had seemed crowded and muddlesome before, she found she could now see them quite clearly. 1952, C. S. Lewis, chapter 10, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Collins, published 1998:
   • 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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