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Throw all the bleary eyes and mussed-up hair and scratchy stubble and disheveled clothes in the world at him, but it won’t do any good.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2017

But there’s no getting away from the fact that Redmayne is the main draw here, that it’s his image, in natty bow-tie and posh-boy, mussed-up hair, on the poster.

From The Guardian • Nov. 6, 2016

A doe-eyed stare and mussed-up hair denotes natural beauty, as if you've just woken up and can't help looking like this.

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2013

Handmade quilts and woven rugs and cats curled right beside the humans in their mussed-up beds.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

Sarai imagined it empty, all those mazy lanes and mussed-up beds deserted, and she felt, for a staggering moment, as though she were drowning in that emptiness.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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