DISHEVELING Synonyms: 61 Similar and Opposite Words

disheveling

verb

variants or dishevelling

present participle of dishevel

as in disrupting

to undo the proper order or arrangement of decorations for the garden wedding that had been disheveled by the wind

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Meanwhile in Romania over the weekend, the Danube plunged to its lowest level in 30 years, according to Reuters, disrupting shipping and leading to restrictions on irrigation.

— Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
At least eight people have died as severe weather continues to sweep across the United States, with flash flooding, powerful thunderstorms and extreme heat disrupting travel and threatening communities on July 19.

— Thao Nguyen, USA Today, 20 July 2026

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Pre-shot routines such as Patrick Cantlay’s foot-shuffling and Brian Harman’s waggles have driven golf fans up a wall.

— Gabby Herzig, New York Times, 20 July 2026
Far more than an administrative exercise or paper-shuffling task, effective onboarding has the potential to lay the foundation for not only a successful hire, but for a mutually satisfying employment tenure.

— Zaharia-Gabriel Sidere, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026

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Indeed, the movie opens with Ed quizzing an older Greek man he’s befriended on the Belgian designer Ann Demeulemeester, before berating him for confusing his Bottega Veneta loafers for Sebago.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
Disenfranchising or, at best, confusing their voters risks their own electoral success, too.

— SoRelle Wyckoff Gaynor, The Conversation, 17 July 2026

Definition of confusing

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At the beginning of the year, Grok sparked outrage for being used to generate millions of conconsensual nudes of real people, including children, disturbing some employees, according to Bloomberg.

— Frank Landymore, Futurism, 16 July 2026
And people are increasingly good at disturbing things, through means like suburbanization.

— Meg Tirrell, CNN Money, 14 July 2026

Definition of disturbing

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