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n. - A state of confusion and disorderliness.

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Usage examples (9)
  • She smoothed the mussiness of the bed
  • Woke up berating myself about last night ... being pushy/inquisition-like with Yawn's new thing ... i get that way, sort of spitefully aggressive, when someone is so polished...
  • Without accuracy any attempt at brilliancy must result in "mussiness."
  • The idea had grown out of the inconvenience of finding a paste-jar, and the general mussiness of scrap-book keeping.
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