mussy
adjective
untidy, messy, or rumpled.
mussiness
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a word derived from
mussy.
Example Sentences
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To me it was getting up before dawn, and washing in ice-cold water, no time to comb the hair, always carrying a feeling of personal mussiness, with an adjustment to dirt.
From Golden Lads by Arthur Gleason
Butter sandwiches must be exceedingly thin and shapely, and have no suggestion of mussiness.
From The Century Cook Book by Mary Ronald
"Things had got to that state of mussiness, that you just began at one end and worked through to the other, and every inch looked new made over after you as you went along."
From Real Folks by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney
Women want to push out into life, to share with men the disorder and mussiness of little things.
From Marching Men by Sherwood Anderson
Without accuracy any attempt at brilliancy must result in "mussiness."
From Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression by James Francis Cooke
