tousle

"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.

Mr. Brown’s tousled hair and gravelly voice have spoken to working-class voters since he was elected Ohio’s secretary of state in 1982.

The 1920s had found a superstar, who with her tousled hair, leather jacket, scarf and khakis, buoyed the world through the Depression.