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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tousle.

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Examples

  • Mia looked so beautiful in her lavender dress, her hair slightly curled in long tousles, the beaded earrings glinting in the setting sun.

    The Love Goddess’ Cooking School Melissa Senate 2010

  • While I would have enjoyed loading up the Wagon Queen Family Truckster, hitting the New Jersey Turnpike, and straddling two lanes at a leisurely 37mph while the icy wind tousles my hair through my missing windshield and my Ironic Orange Julius Bike hangs out the tailgate, it turns out I have to be elsewhere in the country for something more important.

    Archive 2010-02-01 BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • While I would have enjoyed loading up the Wagon Queen Family Truckster, hitting the New Jersey Turnpike, and straddling two lanes at a leisurely 37mph while the icy wind tousles my hair through my missing windshield and my Ironic Orange Julius Bike hangs out the tailgate, it turns out I have to be elsewhere in the country for something more important.

    BSNYC Friday Frumunda Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2010

  • Mia looked so beautiful in her lavender dress, her hair slightly curled in long tousles, the beaded earrings glinting in the setting sun.

    The Love Goddess’ Cooking School Melissa Senate 2010

  • Mia looked so beautiful in her lavender dress, her hair slightly curled in long tousles, the beaded earrings glinting in the setting sun.

    The Love Goddess’ Cooking School Melissa Senate 2010

  • The registration clerk cuddles you and coos; nurses want to hold you; the doctor tousles your hair, which makes you laugh.

    Archive 2006-10-01 Susan Palwick 2006

  • He reaches across the table and tousles my hair affectionately.

    Podcast411 Interview 2005

  • He reaches across the table and tousles my hair affectionately.

    EP021: Platypus Girl 2005

  • The king tousles the boy's hair, and the boy looks at him frankly.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • He reaches across the table and tousles my hair affectionately.

    EP018: Some Girlfriends Can 2005

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