mussy

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

He is well dressed, but mussy looking, as if he had slept on a park bench for a night or two, and had not had recent acquaintance with hair or clothes brush.

From Six One-Act Plays by Oliver, Margaret Scott