muddlesome

== English == === Etymology === From muddle +‎ -some. === Adjective === muddlesome (comparative more muddlesome, superlative 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, 1968, p. 91, […] the abolition of the muddlesome, costly and wasteful apparatus of the kitchen