Adjective : tousled hair; tousled clothes. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : The wind tousled our hair. From Dictionary.com.
Englishmen of the time preferred brushed back and rather "tousled" locks. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference
"tousled" character of the English vocabulary as a whole, compared with. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Browning] Reference
The major was unshaven; his fair hair was tousled. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
He rose, shaggy grey hair tousled, grey eyes alight. From Wordnik.com. [A World is Born] Reference
Pete got up, shaking his tousled red head disgustedly. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scout Automobilists or, Jack Danby in the Woods] Reference
Usually, he prefers a more tousled style for nighttime. From Wordnik.com. [A Man's Unruly Yet Polished Hair] Reference
"It is all tousled up, and your nose is red and shiny.". From Wordnik.com. [The Girl Scouts at Home, or, Rosanna's Beautiful Day] Reference
"Bet your life," was chorused as the three tousled heads vanished. From Wordnik.com. [Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home] Reference
Eyes of shallow blue beneath a fringe of yellow-dyed, tousled locks. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
He tousled my hair as he always did and said, 'Thanks mom, I love you.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Spiritual State: Just Ask] Reference
Margaret the bonniest foals, rough-haired and tousled as they were, and. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
His hair is tousled and wiry and a mix of metal tones, like much of his art. From Wordnik.com. [Ways of Seeing] Reference
She wasn't sure about the tousled blond mop-wasn't he too old for that look?. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke and Mirrors] Reference
"And will the baby some day walk all right?" asked the second tousled figure. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
Then Antonio appeared, followed one by one by the rest of the tousled McGees. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
A face framed by tousled brown hair loomed into focus as my eyelids pried apart. From Wordnik.com. [Josephine Skinny Jeans: Chapter 4] Reference
In spite of his clothes, his missing moustache, and his tousled hair dyed black. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
"Course we wasn't," Ty hastened to declare, with a decided shake of his tousled head. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference
He was quiet and looked rather endearing with his grey tousled hair and navy cardigan. From Wordnik.com. [Taken In] Reference
There he found his wife still abed, her tousled hair damp with sweat, her face flushed. From Wordnik.com. [The Cobbler and the King] Reference
McElroy ran his fingers helplessly through his tousled light hair and faced his friend. From Wordnik.com. [The Maid of the Whispering Hills] Reference
"Vladimir Vladimirovich!" barks an older man with a flushed face and tousled gray hair. From Wordnik.com. [Russian Road Trip] Reference
The footman in livery -- very sleepy and tousled as yet -- was unchaining the front door. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
Gray looked at her, her tousled black curls, the lithe young curves of throat and breast. From Wordnik.com. [A World is Born] Reference
And of all disreputable things, tumbled, rumpled, and tousled finery is the most disreputable. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference
She said it proudly, with a lift of her tousled head and a straightening of her thin shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference
He looked away from the mirror, and there was Vance with his head of blond hair tousled as usual. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Charlotte Simmons] Reference
The sponge flew through the air true to its mark and landed "kersplash" on Chuck's tousled brown head. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas Holidays at Merryvale The Merryvale Boys] Reference
A tall guy with tousled hair and wire-rimmed glasses, CrimethInc sees himself as David fighting Goliath. From Wordnik.com. ['HACKTIVISTS' LOG ON] Reference
Terry stood in his pajamas, gripping a baseball bat in one hand while rubbing tousled hair with the other. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Coggins: Chasing Lotta] Reference
He was an honest young man, with brown hair that always appeared tousled, no matter how carefully he combed it. From Wordnik.com. [Begonia {part one}] Reference
"There's too many kids," said the tousled Scorch, who had evidently been playing with the younger children, too. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
They looked like two very much tossed and tousled girls, but the boys were not thinking of their looks just then. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake Or the Hermit of Fern Island] Reference
Hers was all tousled, and her face was flushed — less like porcelain than I'd remembered it from that afternoon. From Wordnik.com. [Yellow Dining Room] Reference
"You seem to be getting your wish, as you always do," Enid said as she tried to pat Bet's tousled locks into place. From Wordnik.com. [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference
He had the tousled appearance of one who had been unexpectedly roused out of slumber, and unwillingly dragged from bed. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
When they found her five days later she was still sitting in the armchair at the window, the tousled cat at her feet hissing at them. From Wordnik.com. [Scents] Reference
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