Verb (used with object) : to rumple a sheet of paper. ,The wind rumpled her hair. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : Tissue rumples easily. From Dictionary.com.
CHILD: He was a wonderful fellow - rather small, kind of rumpled, piercing blue eyes. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2004] Reference
He felt sweaty and rumpled, but he returned her gaze. From Wordnik.com. [Instrument] Reference
It's a rambler: rumpled and unfussy, and catholic in its tastes. From Wordnik.com. [Frontmen forward] Reference
Molly, giggling in the pantry, rosy cheeked and rumpled clothing. From Wordnik.com. [Cobbler's Clinch] Reference
He wore rumpled, off-the-rack suits, flew coach and drove his own car. From Wordnik.com. [James Rouse Sparked New Life In Old Cities] Reference
All those rumpled-up, soiled reject pieces hanging from tarnished rails. From Wordnik.com. [What I bought this week: rings] Reference
The lining rumpled as he twisted his hand in deep. From Wordnik.com. [Deep Pockets] Reference
His clothes were rumpled; a stubble of pale beard shown in the sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [Transport: a Flash-Fiction Triptych] Reference
GERHAD PASIMOS TAKES OFF HIS rumpled green cap and clenches it in his hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Freedom To Fear] Reference
Isn't it hot in here? 'he said, turning to the thin man in the rumpled suit. From Wordnik.com. [Fasting to a Comfortable Death] Reference
EDWARD KORMAN, rumpled and scholarly, has a reputation as a brilliant jurist. From Wordnik.com. [After 50 Years, A Deal] Reference
(Hence Einstein's own patented “rumpled professor” look (patent pending)). From Wordnik.com. [Too Fast to be Fat] Reference
A rumpled, professorial Jim Jeffords is the new cult figure on college campuses. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Letter: The Beltway's Winners And Losers] Reference
His hair hangs in mushroom-colored dreads and his clothes hang loose and rumpled. From Wordnik.com. [Snake Dreams] Reference
When I was a young man I felt boredom on my shoulders like a rumpled cloak of lead. From Wordnik.com. [An Admirer Visits Paul Bowles] Reference
"How do you feel?" asked his mother, as she smoothed her little boy's rumpled hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins in the Great West] Reference
He was that rare thing, a gentleman, although genteelly rumpled and genially grumpy. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Winship: Where's Ed Newman When You Need Him?] Reference
He was that rare thing, a gentleman, although "genteelly rumpled and genially grumpy.". From Wordnik.com. [Michael Winship: Where's Ed Newman When You Need Him?] Reference
She imagines him bent over a kitchen table, brow rumpled, studying a pile of photographs. From Wordnik.com. [What Keeps Us Awake] Reference
She looks so little and lost in her rumpled clothes that Clare thinks her heart will break. From Wordnik.com. [In transit] Reference
In a brightly striped sweater and rumpled slacks, he stared down at the floor through his aviator glasses. From Wordnik.com. [Billion-Dollar Bath] Reference
With his fedora and rumpled suits, Drudge styles himself as "" the Walter Winchell of the electronic age. ''. From Wordnik.com. [A Capital Cyber Clash] Reference
He was given to rumpled suits, baggy eyes and too brief swim trunks, worn while swimming laps for the cameras. From Wordnik.com. [Death Of A Truthteller] Reference
Larry Summers had the rumpled, slightly sleepy look of a professor who has been up all night solving equations. From Wordnik.com. [The Reeducation of Larry Summers] Reference
A rumpled loner with deformed hands and a dysfunctional family, he became the prototype for Japan's new-age criminals. From Wordnik.com. [Battling A New Breed Of Criminal] Reference
He is the most rumpled senator, and in a dark blue shirt and flowered necktie he looks like the Sixties settled into tenure. From Wordnik.com. [Political Unitarianism] Reference
At first blush, the onetime economics lecturer appears too mild and rumpled to pose a threat to Japan's old financial order. From Wordnik.com. [Learning From The Student] Reference
As he stood in the sweltering sun listening to the president's address, the customarily crisp Powell turned damp and rumpled. From Wordnik.com. [Periscope] Reference
Today, the closest thing to drawing paper in Le Van's studio is the rumpled MacWorld magazine that lines her dove's bird cage. From Wordnik.com. [Throw Out The Brushes] Reference
Wearing a rumpled green suit and holding a Sony HDTV video camera in his right hand, Ali recalled the dictator's last moments. From Wordnik.com. [‘I Saw Fear, He Was Afraid’] Reference
Their solution: a new campaign manager in the form of a rumpled, martini-drinking, cigar-chewing veteran of Tennessee politics. From Wordnik.com. [A GOP Balancing Act] Reference
Duke, the former governor of Samoa in the "Doonesbury" comic strip, is about to throw his rumpled hat in the presidential ring. From Wordnik.com. [Duke For Prez] Reference
But the real Grisham wears rumpled Dockers, shaves once a week-on Sunday, just before church-and coaches a Little League baseball team. From Wordnik.com. [Book 'Em] Reference
Physically, the bor -- ing bird's got a slicked-back coiffure in place of the old rumpled one, and his black eyes have morphed to green. From Wordnik.com. [Woody Gets A '90S Makeover] Reference
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