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Definition of the day : « messing around »

  • verb fiddle; goof off
Example sentences :
  • He does not care for our way of living, I know, and he does like messing around.
  • Extract from : « Eve to the Rescue » by Ethel Hueston
  • I'd hate to see you messing around with bags like that myself, and if I hadn't been drunk I wouldn't have let you.
  • Extract from : « The Plastic Age » by Percy Marks
  • My last letter from Mom said Billy was messing around with a portable atom reactor and she was afraid he might blow himself up.
  • Extract from : « Stand by for Mars! » by Carey Rockwell
  • "Whoever was messing around on the power deck just before you blasted off for the trials must have dumped it in," said Tom.
  • Extract from : « Treachery in Outer Space » by Carey Rockwell and Louis Glanzman
  • Personally, I don't care much about messing around outside after dark.
  • Extract from : « The Adventure Club Afloat » by Ralph Henry Barbour
  • I think I saw him once messing around with some cartons or something, back over the east side of the building.
  • Extract from : « Warren Commission (3 of 26): Hearings Vol. III (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
  • An American cove at Leipzig taking four years' penal for messing around after plans of the Heligoland fortifications.
  • Extract from : « If Winter Comes » by A.S.M. Hutchinson