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tousled

[tou-zuhld]

adjective

  1. disordered or disheveled.

    tousled hair; tousled clothes.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of tousled1

First recorded in 1840–50; tousle + -ed 2
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Hine’s tousled little boy, who looks forlornly into the camera with scowling dark eyes beneath a furrowed brow, likely had no such liberating choice.

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He had been famous since he was a teenager and a sex symbol for just as long, a tousled Californian with a movie star smile.

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She hadn’t brought it along to brush his tousled curls.

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Mr. Brown’s tousled hair and gravelly voice have spoken to working-class voters since he was elected Ohio’s secretary of state in 1982.

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The 1920s had found a superstar, who with her tousled hair, leather jacket, scarf and khakis, buoyed the world through the Depression.

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