She smoothed the mussiness of the bed. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
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 and sweet and polite that i want to squish them like a toothpaste tube to get some mussiness. From Wordnik.com. [wench77 Diary Entry] Reference
Without accuracy any attempt at brilliancy must result in "mussiness.". From Wordnik.com. [Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression] Reference
The idea had grown out of the inconvenience of finding a paste-jar, and the general mussiness of scrap-book keeping. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference
While they were being swallowed -- slowly, by reason of their mussiness -- she had certain things she wished to say to him. From Wordnik.com. [The Brentons] Reference
Again and again he nearly lost his balance, in his violent attempts to dress his beautiful plumage, and remove the last remnant of nest mussiness. From Wordnik.com. [A Bird-Lover in the West] Reference
To me it was getting up before dawn, and washing in ice-cold water, no time to comb the hair, always carrying a feeling of personal mussiness, with an adjustment to dirt. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Lads] Reference
"Things had got to that state of mussiness, that you just began at one end and worked through to the other, and every inch looked new made over after you as you went along.". From Wordnik.com. [Real Folks] Reference
"Women want to push out into life, to share with men the disorder and mussiness of little things. From Wordnik.com. [Marching Men] Reference
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