Antonyms for neatlyneat·ly

Princeton's WordNet

1. neatlyadverb

   with neatness

   "she put the slippers under the bed neatly"

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1. untidy

   neatly means keeping things organized and untidy means keeping things disorganized. so their antonyms.

   susan was a neat girl, but rhea was a little untidy.

   Submitted by anonymous on October 12, 2020  

How to use neatly in a sentence?

1. Steve White-Cooper:

   They recognise that sport and business works neatly together and there are lot of transferable skills like communication, leadership, and teamwork, players have got to utilise doors that can open, and use them as a stepping stone into life after rugby.

2. Douglas Adams, The Guardian:

   The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second-rate technology, who led them into it in the first place.

3. Jeremy Guggenheim:

   It’s important to keep in mind that this type of study can never pin-point the precise causes of myopia in the way that is possible using purpose-designed clinical trials, nevertheless, the risk factors that were identified in the new study fit neatly with what has been learned in recent years from such trials.

4. Antonin Artaud:

   Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.

5. W. J. Reichmann:

   Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labelled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions

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