ruffled

• “Granpa Jack turned around, his thinning gray hair rising in ruffled wings above his ears.”

  Fictionaut: Go to Jesus

• “Griffin ruffled feathers, yet here was a space engineering type that knew from where he spoke.”

  Mike Griffin Wants His Old Job Back - NASA Watch

• “John and I huddled at a little plastic table drinking our beers as the wind and rain ruffled the awning overhead.”

  Mexico mountaineering expedition on Pico de Orizaba (Citlaltepetl)

• “This disrespectful allusion to his calling ruffled the temper of the hospital attendant, and, growing profane, he insisted that he was as good as _Smith_, and better, and at once challenged "the bloviating mule scrubber to get down off his perch and stand up before him like a man.”

  Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865

• “When the boos and catcalls ruffled her feathers, Mean Jean retreated to her perch and later retracted her comments.”

  John Murtha: An Eagle Amid the Turkeys

• “(Knight of the Pope), a cushion, one waisted fiddle with a comb-bridge, another lute (upside-down), and three books, two of whose pages are "ruffled" as if by a nearby draft.”

  Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

• “Even though the underground newspaper wrote a questioning article in regard to Lauren's mother and her accusations, Lauren came out for the Fall Retreat and she and Andy seem to be doing well although a bit "ruffled" by all the accusations even towards Andy and his lovely family.”

  The Huffington Post: Chris Rodda: Cadets For Christ: Women, Evangelicals And The Air Force Academy

• “She is unquestionably feminine with her up-do and her penchant for figure hugging clothes, but the embellishments Yulia favors are almost always masculine (if dated ideals of masculinity, such as ruffled shirts), externalizing what must be a daily struggle: being a female politician in the male dominated world of politics.”

  Tove Hermanson: A Daringly Stylish Politician!

• “You know, Hillary Rodham Clinton was a first lady who kind of ruffled some feathers early on.”

  CNN Transcript Jan 21, 2009

• “The “low pathogenic” form may go undetected and usually causes only mild symptoms (such as ruffled feathers and a drop in egg production).”

  Bird flu

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