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
If the sugar is damp, it will mat so that the confection is "mussy" to the eye and unpleasant to the palate.
From Candy-Making Revolutionized Confectionery from Vegetables by Mary Elizabeth Hall
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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