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tousle

verb as in disarray

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“She has expensive taste,” Nelson laughed, kneeling down to tousle Sadie’s fur.

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Hine’s tousled little boy, who looks forlornly into the camera with scowling dark eyes beneath a furrowed brow, likely had no such liberating choice.

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"You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you’re thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws."

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He had been famous since he was a teenager and a sex symbol for just as long, a tousled Californian with a movie star smile.

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She hadn’t brought it along to brush his tousled curls.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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