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Messily

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a messy manner; sloppily, shoddily.

    "The Commander's aim was off sending it messily over the back of the sensor officer's bulbous head instead."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a messy, untidy manner wordnet

Etymology

From messy + -ly.

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