Meaning & use

mishmash

noun·Everyday

A confused or disorganized mixture of different things.

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The apartment's decor was a mishmash of styles collected from different decades.

The report was a mishmash of statistics with no clear argument tying them together.

A note on using this word

Mishmash is informal and usually implies the mixture is messy or lacking coherent organization.

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