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• s  in utter disorder
• r  in a disordered manner
  they were piled up higgledy-piggledy

• Like their less ambitious party colleagues, the busy Republican presidential hopefuls, after several weeks of higgledy-piggledy campaigning, final ly seemed to be zeroing in on .
• For many years we have all known that the executive and administrative departments are a higgledy-piggledy patchwork of duplicate responsibilities and overlapping powers.
• In a higgledy-piggledy complex of tired-looking trailers parked alongside grain silos and stock pens, four white-coated scientists are investigating crimes with the tools of 21st .

• disorderly
• hugger-mugger
• jumbled
• topsy-turvy

Quotes

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• Sir Alex Ferguson in Times Online
  We are a bit higgledy-piggledy in terms of team selection but for the first time, we have enough forward power to improve our chances of scoring,Ferguson, who also has Louis Saha available, said.
• Tim Booth in Telegraph.co.uk
  Pc Tim Booth, a crime prevention officer for Lincolnshire Police, said: "When you consider the quantities that have been taken, it's all very odd. If you went to a catering event such as a wedding and the tables were higgledy-piggledy and of...