"muddlesome" meaning in English

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          "text": "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,\n[…] the abolition of the muddlesome, costly and wasteful apparatus of the kitchen"
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          "ref": "1952, C. S. Lewis, chapter 10, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Collins, published 1998",
          "text": "Lucy peered at the pictures with her face close to the page, and though they had seemed crowded and muddlesome before, she found she could now see them quite clearly.",
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          "ref": "1966, Alan Watts, chapter 5, in The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are, New York: Vintage, published 1989, page 116",
          "text": "Without this, all social concern will be muddlesome meddling, and all work for the future will be planned disaster.",
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        "Characterised or marked by muddling; confusing, lacking in order; tending to muddle."
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