A dish of fried peanuts comes with tea, and hot towels arrive as needed, just after a somewhat messy shrimp course.

He was about to remark that, although the man undoubtedly deserved it, this operation might be somewhat messy, when the Little One interrupted.

Later, there was a somewhat messy transition to independence involving a communist insurrection and a war with Indonesia.

In fact the mural's creation had been a somewhat messy affair.

I would consider impact to be a somewhat messy affair doubtless culminating in our extinction.

Its size meant that it easily disappeared on my somewhat messy desk.

It was surprisingly clumsy and somewhat messy.

"Wish You Were Here" is somewhat messy and not entirely convincing.

Another, somewhat messy, way is to burn just about anything.

Their somewhat messy style has been described as "sloppy yet brilliant" and "beautiful chaos".