Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. of hair, etc. unkempt, disheveled or in disarray
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of tousle.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. in disarray; extremely disorderly
Examples
“Allure's Web site features a busy beauty blogging area, a Facebook page and a standalone site called Allure Virtual Store, where users can watch videos on how to create a "tousled" hair look.”
“Rocking-horses can't run away," Sue said, shaking her head, the hair of which needed brushing, as it had become "tousled" in her sleep.”
“Englishmen of the time preferred brushed back and rather "tousled" locks.”
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
“tousled" character of the English vocabulary as a whole, compared with”
“I smiled and tousled her hair as I left, effectively scattering her carefully parted side swept bangs.”
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“As a bank executive, Moynihan has been known to attend meetings with colleagues or analysts looking rumpled and tousled, a stark contrast to his predecessor, Lewis, who was known for being impeccably dressed.”
“But in my twenties the need to be prepared for the unexpected was not an issue, even without a stitch of makeup and tousled just woke up hair, my radiant youth inoculated me about worrying about […]”
“But in my twenties the need to be prepared for the unexpected was not an issue, even without a stitch of makeup and tousled just woke up hair, my radiant youth inoculated me about worrying about such things.”
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“On the mantelpiece his wife, Nancy, smiled from her photo, her wavy brown hair tousled, and her freckled nose slightly pink with sunburn.”
“The same tousled auburn hair, the same aristocratic bearing, the same large, work-hardened hands ornamented with that heavy emerald chunk.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘tousled’.
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A Time of Gifts
lambent, gonfalon, ait, eyrie, haberdashery, belfry, capstan, spinney, barbican, hobnail, wharf, waterlogged and 64 more...
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Buttery
Words that make me feel cozy
Noodle, Nugget, Butter, Soft, Snug, Feather, Socks, Knit, Mug, Curl, Billow, Lounge and 315 more...
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just words.
coquette, solecism, peripherally, recrudescence, viscid, turpitude, sententious, light-heeled, interminably, unflappable, palpably, solicitous and 215 more...
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hairstyles
bun, bobtail, ponytail, cornrow, odango*, updo, bouffant, plait, braid, bunches, buzzcut, combover and 331 more...
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adjectives
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Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1689 more...
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Ulysses
This is a list of the more difficult English words found in James Joyce's Ulysses. It will continually be updated as I read along. The list is in reverse chronological order, meaning that the last ...
equine, untonsured, corpuscle, prelate, parapet, dactyl, jejune, lancet, jalap, barbican, valise, dewsilky and 377 more...
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GRE uncommon
patronage, expletive, exhort, exegesis, execrable, excommunicate, evince, escarpment, ersatz, ergo, epoxy, snare and 1202 more...
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hot words.
words I find attractive.
barrel, hush, yellow, charcoal, gray, flannel, roll, gambol, grin, flash, empty, bare and 43 more...
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twilight, tutu, tea rose, taffeta, thimble, thistle, tinker, tiptoe, tulle, tumble, tawny, 'twill and 37 more...
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Words from The Brothers Karamazov
Vocabulary words.
sententiously, mutton, eunuch, anathema, casuistry, imperturbably, forerunner, birch, torpor, precipice, bravado, insolent and 74 more...
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