(of a place, situation, person, etc) In a disorderly state; chaotic; disorderly.
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a messy office
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Jim ran his fingers through his messy brown hair.
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Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory.
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2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847: