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Definition

a state of disorder, confusion, or untidiness

disarray = a state of disorder

disarray = disorder (not worn neatly)

disarray = disorder

It had been represented to them that the disarray into which society had been thrown by this deplorable affair made their presence in town more necessary than ever.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
I am Colonel Bose's son, and not only are you rude but your uniforms are in disarray.
Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore

disarray = in a state of disorder or untidiness

It was such disarray, no one knew who to attack or defend, and people slipped through holes in the lines .... it was terrifying.
Kiera Cass -- The Selection

disarray = disorderly confusion

It was a whole new idea to her that people could live in such disarray, but at the same time she was charmed.
Natalie Babbitt -- Tuck Everlasting

disarray = a messy way

disarray = a messy state of disorder

The disarray of the queendom didn't lend itself to pomp and circumstance, so Alyss kept her coronation ceremony short and to the point.
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

disarray = state of disorder

She stares at her feet, where my pictures lie in disarray.
Katherine Applegate -- The One and Only Ivan

disarray = a state of disorder

But when I went up to my room, I found my jewelry box in disarray, and rushed back down just in time to see Chiyo handing something over to the man.
Arthur Golden -- Memoirs of a Geisha

disarray = with things out-of-place

By the Indian's side, and evidently sustaining a companionship with him, stood a white man, clad in a strange disarray of civilized and savage costume.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter

disarray = disorderly mixture

He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one, before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel, which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

disarray = disordered mess

Number four: my movie stars are in a terrible disarray and are dying to be straightened out, but since it'll take several days to do that and Professor Anne is, as she's already said, up to her ears in work, they'll have to put up with the chaos a while longer.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

disarray = a state of disorder

She didn't look eager to stop what she was doing, but she left her trunk in disarray and came out into the hallway with me.
Arthur Golden -- Memoirs of a Geisha
When she did come back the following day, she smelled as if she had been sick to her stomach, and her hair was in disarray.
Arthur Golden -- Memoirs of a Geisha
The room was in terrible disarray, because Hatsumomo had put things everywhere in her efforts at moving.
Arthur Golden -- Memoirs of a Geisha
I looked around the floor at the piles of underclothing, bottles of perfume, and all the other things she'd scattered in disarray.
Arthur Golden -- Memoirs of a Geisha
Everything about him was in disarray, not only his gray hair, but his kimono, which looked as if he'd slept in it the night before.
Arthur Golden -- Memoirs of a Geisha
But just as we slipped into our shoes, another young girl our age came rushing across the garden with her hair in disarray.
Arthur Golden -- Memoirs of a Geisha

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