muddlesome

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muddlesome

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From muddle + -some.

adjective more muddlesome · most muddlesome

Characterised or marked by muddling; confusing, lacking in order; tending to muddle. 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, 1

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@misc{muddlesome_2026,
  title = {muddlesome},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/muddlesome},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}