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ruffle
verb as in mess up
verb as in upset, irritate
Strong matches
Example Sentences
The scuttled offer apparently did little to ruffle feathers.
That posture will surely ruffle the feathers of an “America First” president enamored of dictators and disdainful of allies.
Playing to the audience, Stewart preened and posed his way through the hits, with an array of costume changes that ended with a white ruffled shirt, unbuttoned almost to the navel.
Mr Hancock also alluded to how he had had to “ruffle some feathers” to protect the NHS from political interference.
Donald Trump picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to join his Cabinet as the head of the Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday, and that nomination is already ruffling feathers in Congress.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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