disheveling

variants or dishevelling
present participle of dishevel

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for disheveling
Verb
  • Analysts, however, worry if the licenses will be approved fast enough to avoid disrupting operations abroad.
    John Liu, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Soft-spoken and unrelenting, Alboury emerges as the only moral voice in a land of postcolonial abandon, refusing to let Cal get away with what may be homicide, while disrupting Horn’s romantic first night with Leonie.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 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 9 Sep. 2025.

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