muss
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He adds, "No muss, no fuss; she's with us."
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2023
“It’s exactly the effect with none of the muss and fuss,” she said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 23, 2022
As the world’s biggest fan of Peter Watkins’s twisted and superb “Edvard Munch,” I harbor a soft spot for filmmakers who muss up the perfectly coifed looks and reassuring habits of biographical films.
From New York Times ● Jul. 22, 2021
Kremer’s latest recording, “Searching for Beethoven,” with cellist Mario Brunello and the Kremerata Baltica, begins with Brunello’s arrangement of “Muss es Sein? Es muss sein!,” a 1970s song by anarchistic French chanteur Léo Ferré.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2020
I mumbled into her skirt, “Ah muss moo.”
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
It cuts away when wind musses the hair of Xi Jinping, the Chinese president.
From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2019
A low-key vibe pervades the shop—when a young boy musses a pile of garments, he gets nothing more than a beatific smile from the sales staff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2019
Southern humidity has everybody sweating through their shirts, but no perspiration musses Adora’s Veronica Lake waves.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 27, 2018
She once read an online comment observing that she has a “short forehead,” and it’s true, though she so frequently musses her impressively thick, straight hair that it’s hard to notice.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 25, 2016
He reaches over and musses up my hair.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
Linda McMahon, the former pro wrestling executive who served as director of the Small Business Administration under Trump, told of a meeting where one of his grandchildren climbed onto his lap and mussed his hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
Baker: I can’t shake the image of Colorado defenseman Cale Makar escaping Tuesday’s home opener with nary a mussed hair beneath his helmet.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 20, 2023
He’s so in love with the shoes that he’s reluctant to do anything in them, sitting out a pickup game for fear they’ll get mussed.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
Britain’s former prime minister Boris Johnson, who took on the task of Brexit, was essentially a giant mop of mussed blond hair.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2022
There was a platform bed against the far wall, its blankets mussed as though someone had slept there recently.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
He scratched it, mussing his hair even further.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020
Mr. Macdonald saw this up close two years ago when his pal Jimmy Fallon was criticized for playfully mussing then-candidate Mr. Trump’s hair on “The Tonight Show.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2018
Not that Mr. Fairchild liked to take credit for mussing the industry’s hair and bruising feelings.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2015
Schneider went behind Idzik, further mussing his hair as the coach laughed.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 7, 2011
Ilya interrupted Anya’s thoughts with a huge hand on her kerchief, mussing her hair.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
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