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mussy

[muhs-ee] / ˈmʌs i /


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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

Thelma's neat gingham dress became limp and mussy and common.

From The Reclaimers by McCarter, Margaret Hill

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 Rinehart, Mary Roberts




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