MUSSINESS Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

mussiness

noun

Definition of mussiness

as in messiness

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Noun

The fight sequences have an engaging messiness, the characters often fumbling around rather than delivering expert moves.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2026
One imagines Dahl, whose sometimes monstrous characters captured childhood in all its messiness, would be relieved.

— Alison Herman, Variety, 23 Sep. 2026

Definition of messiness

Noun

In the second half, United’s defensive sloppiness only got worse and led to Brighton adding a second and third in almost comical fashion, gifting goals to Maxim De Cuyper and Pascal Gross in a five-minute spell.

— Chris McKenna, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Head coach Eli Drinkwitz praised his team’s first-half performance but was displeased with the lack of intensity and sloppiness by reserves in the second half.

— PJ Green September 4, Kansas City Star, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of sloppiness

Noun

These conspicuous little signs of untidiness take mere seconds to clean up and can be the secret to a home that somehow always looks pristine, even if just at first glance.

— Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 13 Feb. 2026
Bills are being paid late, the practice is a frightening level of untidiness, there’s a miniature horse in the study, and Siegfried is passed out on the sofa with some loose woman under a trench coat beside him.

— Alice Burton, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026

Definition of untidiness

Noun

My father would rinse the rice over and over, sifting it between his fingertips, searching for the impurities, pulling them out.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2026
The filter handles chlorine or other impurities while the shampoo periodically removes the mineral buildup the filter cannot touch.

— Ryan Brennan, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of impurity

Noun

The Yolo County parents of a 7-day-old infant found living in squalor in a tent under an overpass have pleaded not guilty to the child endangerment charges against them, records show.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
Bryant was charged in February 2025 with first-degree child abuse after investigators found that her children — at the time ages 12, 13, and 15 — had been living alone for at least four years in a townhouse on Lydia Lane, trapped in squalor.

— Andrea May Sahouri, Freep.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of squalor

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