"topsy-turvily" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1920, Mabel Wood Martin, chapter 7, in The Green God’s Pavilion, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, page 92",
          "text": "You frighten me a little by the order that is all through you. Even your sins appear to have unity, whereas I keep house topsy-turvily in my innermost being.",
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          "ref": "1940, Emma Orczy, chapter 14, in Mam’zelle Guillotine, London: Hodder & Stoughton",
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        "In a topsy-turvy manner, chaotically."
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "in a topsy-turvy manner",
          "word": "auf den Kopf gestellt"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "disorderly, chaotically",
          "word": "unordentlich"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "disorderly, chaotically",
          "word": "chaotisch"
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "disorderly, chaotically",
          "word": "desordenadamente"
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          "ref": "1920, Mabel Wood Martin, chapter 7, in The Green God’s Pavilion, New York: Frederick A. Stokes, page 92",
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          "ref": "1940, Emma Orczy, chapter 14, in Mam’zelle Guillotine, London: Hodder & Stoughton",
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      "sense": "in a topsy-turvy manner",
      "word": "auf den Kopf gestellt"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "disorderly, chaotically",
      "word": "unordentlich"
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      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "disorderly, chaotically",
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