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View definitions for rumpled

rumpled

adjective as in corrugated

adjective as in matted

adjective as in tousled

adjective as in wrinkled

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We’re left to stand around holding the rumpled sack.

From Slate

An aggressively flatulent vision of undarned socks, rumpled shirts and unspeakably greasy trench coat, Lamb is invariably surrounded by whiskey bottles and the moldering remnants of Chinese takeout.

But at this moment, and in the hands of this actor and writing team, Jackson Lamb, even more rumpled than Columbo and just as canny, has an everyman quality that puts him not in opposition to James Bond or “Mission: Impossible’s” Ethan Hunt but outside their ken entirely.

Yehorov — portly, rumpled, intense — wasn’t looking for professional polish.

What he’d thought were stones was actually a rumpled gray shirt, its buttons larger than Jack’s head.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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