mussed-up

He twisted his head around his back to lick down his mussed-up fur, chagrined at being handled like a sack of potatoes.

Rogue Oracle 2011

He twisted his head around his back to lick down his mussed-up fur, chagrined at being handled like a sack of potatoes.

Rogue Oracle 2011

In reality, though, this set of jewellery is aimed more at a life with sun-kissed skin, mussed-up post-swimming hair and G&Ts.

Something for the weekend: Beach jewellery Words: Simon Chilvers. Styling: Kelly Bowerbank 2010

She wore a mussed-up shock of silvered red hair and a cardigan with two tangles of crazy thread where the top buttons had once been.

Geisha Doll 2010

She was discovered by her cleaning woman—no connection to the dead one—in a mussed-up bed with a pillow still over her face.

TOO MANY MURDERS Colleen McCullough 2009

“I got here early and saw these books in the living room,” he says, and Emma notices his bloodshot eyes and mussed-up hair.

Sleepless Thomas Fahy 2009

While Nikki and I were having our hair cut at Don Juan (the usual tabas for me, a mussed-up short pixie look for her - courtesy of her hairdresser, a sombre old straight fellow named "Honey"), I listened to this horrible caterwauling on TV.

notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2004

While Nikki and I were having our hair cut at Don Juan (the usual tabas for me, a mussed-up short pixie look for her - courtesy of her hairdresser, a sombre old straight fellow named "Honey"), I listened to this horrible caterwauling on TV.

Archive 2004-01-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004

His desk was a mass of mussed-up papers, his door not even locked.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

But one look in the mirror and a sniff at my armpits changed my mind: I could live with bloodshot eyes and mussed-up hair, but popular society frowned on people who smelled like I did right now.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005