mussy
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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
It is a mussy show; its acts don't move in procession, they merely pile up like wash.
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
For the rest, Harry was a wholesome, lovable little minx with the kindest heart that ever beat under a mussy white shirt-waist and the quickest temper that ever went with red hair.
From The Crimson Sweater by Ralph Henry Barbour
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 Mary Roberts Rinehart
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