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mussily
adverb
uk /ˈmʌs.əl.i/ us /ˈmʌs.əl.i/
in an untidy way:
Her hair was mussily pulled back from her face.
He folded the letter mussily, and shoved it into his pocket.
Her hair was tousled mussily around her face.
He anxiously ran a hand through his hair so that it stood up mussily on his head.
She wrapped the present quickly and mussily.
He was dressed mussily in wrinkled old work clothes.
Her sari was mussily creased from the journey.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Dirty & untidy
all over the placeidiom
Augean
besmeared
bespattered
bloodied
look like something the cat brought/dragged inidiom
look like/as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwardsidiom
manky
messily
messy
sluttish
sluttishly
soiled
sordid
sordidly
unsterilized
untidily
untidy
untrimmed
unwashed
Synonyms
messily(UNTIDILY) untidily Related wordmussy
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