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to create (as by crushing) an irregular mass of creases in
sitting down on the bedspread wrinkled it
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Recent Examples of wrinkled
Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Best Amazon Prime Day Storage & Organization Deals Keep the closets neat, the drawers organized, the spices in alphabetical order, and the bedding from getting wrinkled with these genius storage and organization hacks.
—Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
Cut them in half and roast them at 425 degrees Fahrenheit (218 degrees Celsius) until the skins are charred and wrinkled.
—Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Health, 8 Oct. 2025
However, if that same button-up is wrinkled, your outfit will look seriously frumpy.
—Genevieve Cepeda, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2025
Every plot point is wrinkled or changed in some fundamental way.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard, 18 Oct. 2024
The vinyl decals, featuring salmon crying to get beyond the first of the dams, were wrinkled, the banner itself battle-scarred in places.
—Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 12 Oct. 2024
Emma noticed the fish was more aesthetically pleasing—iridescent skin, which was just slightly wrinkled and completely intact in the can.
—Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 7 Oct. 2024
Verb
The old, wrinkled one looks up at Helm’s mountain, at the sky above its summit.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Best Amazon Prime Day Storage & Organization Deals Keep the closets neat, the drawers organized, the spices in alphabetical order, and the bedding from getting wrinkled with these genius storage and organization hacks.
—Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Oct. 2025
Cut them in half and roast them at 425 degrees Fahrenheit (218 degrees Celsius) until the skins are charred and wrinkled.
—Chelsea Rae Bourgeois, Health, 8 Oct. 2025
However, if that same button-up is wrinkled, your outfit will look seriously frumpy.
—Genevieve Cepeda, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2025
Every plot point is wrinkled or changed in some fundamental way.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard, 18 Oct. 2024
The vinyl decals, featuring salmon crying to get beyond the first of the dams, were wrinkled, the banner itself battle-scarred in places.
—Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 12 Oct. 2024
Emma noticed the fish was more aesthetically pleasing—iridescent skin, which was just slightly wrinkled and completely intact in the can.
—Sam Stone, Bon Appétit, 7 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrinkled
Adjective
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Several of the most striking photographs in the book are of the studio itself, which appears empty except for a pair of high heels reflected in a wall of mirrors or a rumpled military blanket, a favorite backdrop, pinned to a bare wall.—
Vince Aletti,
New Yorker,
8 Nov. 2025
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When our dissatisfaction came adorably clothed in rumpled flannels and baggy jeans?—
Nora Dahlia,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Their bark is ridged and furrowed, giving insects room to proliferate.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
29 Oct. 2025
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Lina glances at the ceiling, brow furrowed.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
8 Oct. 2025
Verb
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Then, after Barnes had dragged Newcastle level and the home side had built up attacking pressure, Thiaw crumpled under a challenge from Calvert-Lewin inside his own box, stuck out an arm and handled Jaka Bijol’s nod-down.—
Chris Waugh,
New York Times,
7 Jan. 2026
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The Nuggets were playing the Miami Heat when Jokic crumpled to the ground holding his knee at the tail end of the first half.—
Bennett Durando,
Denver Post,
30 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Instead, Ferguson watched as her once bright-eyed, handsome son sank into disheveled psychosis, bouncing between family members' homes, homeless shelters, jails, clinics, emergency rooms and Ohio's regional psychiatric hospitals.—
Sarah Jane Tribble,
NPR,
22 Dec. 2025
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Not that there’s a direct cause and effect between botched screens and not knowing where you’re supposed to line up shortly after them, but the point is that far too often this season, the Packers have looked disheveled or inept on offense, given their talent on that side of the ball.—
Matt Schneidman,
New York Times,
3 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Your paper should be creased into eight triangles.—
Kathy Barnes,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Dec. 2025
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As a reporter asked Nix — still in full pads in the Broncos’ postgame locker room— about the sequence, a smile creased his face.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
1 Dec. 2025
Verb
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The beauty of a great lightweight puffer is that it can be worn as an insert or an overcoat, and it can even be tightly scrunched up into a tiny ball to be used as a makeshift travel pillow on the plane.—
Michelle Tchea,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Dec. 2025
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Unlike a typical golden, her dog sports an underbite and scrunched nose, giving her a uniquely charming expression.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Van Sant was impressed by Elwes’s preparation and physical transformation, with his shaggy hair and bushy beard.—
Eric Andersson,
PEOPLE,
9 Jan. 2026
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To go with her new gal on the go lifestyle, she's chopped off her iconic perm in favor of a whimsical, shaggy pixie cut.—
Meg Walters,
InStyle,
9 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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But a big, beautiful, and sometimes messy public square that belongs to us all.—
Yolanda Watson Spiva,
Fortune,
8 Nov. 2025
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The best heroes are beloved because their choices — admirable, messy, or otherwise — are hard ones made in service of something greater.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Wrinkled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrinkled. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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