dishevel

Eve dishevel Your hair for the bliss-drenched revel On our primal loam.

From Look! We Have Come Through! by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

With rant and revel My hair I dishevel, And I am the queen of Astrofelle.

From Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems by Eric Mackay

I find it clear and very clarifying, after the innumerable hours I have spent in trying to dishevel him.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by William James

“Know you not ’tis rank treason to discrown our sacred Majesty, far more to dishevel or destroy our locks? 

From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Shake down thy hair and dishevel it, so!—that is excellent.

From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Richard Garnett

When Jackie was rescued from the shore of Big Bear Lake, she was underweight and disheveled.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

“Also, her feathers were very disheveled, which is not normal for a healthy bird,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Old Town, my slightly disheveled neighborhood of churches, Mexican-adjacent tchotchke shops, is where missionaries established their first mission, colonizing the town that belonged to the country south of the US border.

From Salon ● May 9, 2026

Still, with his chest-hugging T-shirt and rugged handsomeness, Mr. Bernthal recalls John Travolta in his early prime rather than the sweaty, disheveled but endearing desperado memorably created by Mr. Pacino.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

His hair was a little disheveled, and it looked as if he hadn’t shaved since the night before.

From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith

In this stylish, morally disheveling work, there might be less of a distinction than you think.

From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2019

We come, shoe-strings dragging, skirts impeding, wind disheveling, holding on to inappropriate head-gear, feathers awry, victims of old-time convictions, unadapted to modern conditions, amateur marchers, poorly uniformed—but here we come—just count us—here we come!

From The Fifth Wheel A Novel by Olive Higgins Prouty

Alison said the men made it to the villa in a dishevelled state.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025

Cabin manager co-workers later found him at the bottom of the stairs "dishevelled, pale, sweaty and erratic".

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2025

"He is believed to be more dishevelled than he appears in the photo with longer hair and an unkempt beard," a Met spokesperson said.

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2024

It's a spectacular downfall for Silicon Valley's dishevelled wunderkind, who rubbed elbows with celebrities like Gisele and Tom Brady.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2023

Wild-eyed and dishevelled, he seemed to shrink back from the light, and closed the door behind us.

From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins

It was an embarras de richesses rarely met with; and in the rich and precious braids the ivory fingers were clutched, dishevelling them, tearing at them, in the excess of pain.

From Dr. Dumany's Wife by Mór Jókai

That interior was singularly restful, pleasant, after the confused and dishevelling night.

From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

As they descended the stairs, Lord Pomfret emerged from the library, cramming cigarettes into his case with the dishevelling manipulation of the belated swain.

From Anthony Lyveden by Dornford Yates