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at sixes and sevensphrase lacking in order, neatness, and often cleanlinessThe house was at sixes and sevens for the first few weeks after we moved in. chaotic, cluttered, confused, disarranged, disarrayed, disheveled(or dishevelled), disordered, disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-mugger, jumbled, littered, messed, messy, muddled, mussed, mussy, pell-mell, rumpled, sloppy, topsy-turvy, tousled, tumbled, unkempt, untidy, upside-down bedraggled, befouled, begrimed, bemired, besmirched, blackened, cruddy, dingy, dirty, draggled, filthy, foul, grimy, grotty(chiefly British), grubby, grungy, mucky, nasty, smudged, soiled, spotted, squalid, stained, sullied, unclean, uncleanlydowdy, frowsy(or frowzy), shaggy, slatternly, sloven, slovenly, uncombedwrinkledadulterated, contaminated, defiled, polluted, taintedknotted, snarled, tangledseedy, shabby, sleazy, sordidneglected, neglectful, negligent out of joint bandbox, crisp, kempt, neat, neatened, ordered, orderly, organized, shipshape, snug, tidied, tidy, trim, uncluttered, well-ordered antiseptic, clean, cleaned, cleanly, hygienic, immaculate, sparkling, spick-and-span(or spic-and-span), spotless, stainless, unsoiled, unsulliedmethodical(also methodic), regular, systematic, systematizedcareful, fastidious, finicky, fussy, meticulouscombed, groomed, manicured, well-groomedtaintless, undefiled, unpolluted, untainted, wholesome |