disheveling

variants or dishevelling
present participle of dishevel

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for disheveling
Verb
  • Ride-hailing giants Uber and Bolt are disrupting Kenya’s lucrative safari market with new services that are driving fears of price cuts among traditional tour operators.
    Martin K.N Siele, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Cuban founded Cost Plus Drugs, a similar direct-to-consumer (DTC) platform, in 2022 with the goal of disrupting the health care industry.
    Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • When a school principal (Ashley Padilla) and a teacher (Mikey Day) reprimand a student (Hernandez) for disturbing drawings of him attacking the principal, the student’s father (Bad Bunny) comes in, and Padilla’s principal, immediately smitten, changes course to hitting on the student’s father.
    Rima Parikh, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Something, the researchers said, must be disturbing these orbits and tilting them.
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
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“Disheveling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disheveling. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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