tousle

“She has expensive taste,” Nelson laughed, kneeling down to tousle Sadie’s fur.

Hine’s tousled little boy, who looks forlornly into the camera with scowling dark eyes beneath a furrowed brow, likely had no such liberating choice.

"You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you’re thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws."

He had been famous since he was a teenager and a sex symbol for just as long, a tousled Californian with a movie star smile.

She hadn’t brought it along to brush his tousled curls.