disheveling

variants or dishevelling
present participle of dishevel

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disheveling
Verb
  • However, the president’s criticism of mail-in ballots could risk disrupting the inroads Republicans made with voters last cycle, with the party spending millions promoting mail-in ballots ahead of the 2024 election.
    Hailey Bullis, The Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The limitations placed on these researchers is disrupting NASA’s work and could stymie the careers of younger Chinese researchers who came to the US to advance their scientific work, as well as benefit the space agency through their findings, the sources said.
    Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Two players take on the roles of a brother and sister who are searching for their missing buddies on an island inhabited by some rather disturbing monsters.
    Joshua Lamb, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • In 2020, 13-year-old Lauryn Licari and her middle-school boyfriend, Owen McKenny, started getting constant graphic and disturbing messages from an unknown number out of the blue.
    Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Disheveling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disheveling. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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