as in messiness
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This is a movie designed to repulse as much attract, and one in which its sheer messiness, its chaos-Muppet energy and its mania gets you uncomfortably close to its unraveling main character’s mindset.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
6 Nov. 2025 -
But risk has become uninsurable, and messiness doesn’t test well.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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Arne Slot, his side undermined by profligacy at one end and sloppiness at the other, had endured a first home defeat in the Premier League for 400 days courtesy of Harry Maguire’s late winner.—
Carl Anka,
New York Times,
19 Oct. 2025
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Players and coaches downplayed the difference between playing in the United States and England, despite the typically sloppiness of European games and the Jaguars’ familiarity with this routine with annual trips to the United Kingdom.—
Adam Grosbard,
Oc Register,
18 Oct. 2025
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United’s co-owner being on site led to a sweep of the open-plan offices to ensure no untidiness, especially that desks were clear of empty cups, believed to be a particular Ratcliffe peeve.—
Laurie Whitwell,
New York Times,
14 Aug. 2025
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Levy noted that stone vessels, which do not contract ritual impurity under Jewish law, were common in the area.—
Andrew Silow-Carroll,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Jan. 2026
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Through this approach, plasma–wall interactions, impurity accumulation and energy losses were significantly reduced, plasma is eventually pushed into a high enough density at the end of start-up.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Jan. 2026
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While working long days in construction and nights as an Uber driver, Colmenares tried to navigate around the menace and squalor.—
Melissa Sanchez,
ProPublica,
30 Dec. 2025
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The struggles against inhuman prejudice, against squalor, ignorance, and disease, have always owed a great deal to the determination and tenacity of women.—
Andrea Wurzburger,
PEOPLE,
30 Nov. 2025
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“Mussiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mussiness. Accessed 9 Jan. 2026.
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