mussy
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It is a mussy show; its acts don't move in procession, they merely pile up like wash.
From Time Magazine Archive
His great-eyed, meanderingly drawn figures often seem to exist in a mussy halo of phosphorescence, with vast spaces of mere paint around them.
From Time Magazine Archive
Why isn’t there a hyphen in “today”? Lawks-a- mussy, what sort of punctuation chickens are we at the beginning of the 21st century?
From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author
They bought him glasses with rectangular wire rims and caked his hair with endless product so that he had a kind of curly, mussy 'do like the coolest kids at school.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
‘Laws a mussy, I did fergit to tell you one thing, an’ that is that you mus’ stir in some gumption wif ev’y aig.’”
From Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days by Speed, Nell
On the top floor Jim had a studio, like every other one I ever saw—perhaps a little mussier.
From When a Man Marries by Rinehart, Mary Roberts
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