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• v  disarrange or rumple; dishevel
• s  in disarray; extremely disorderly

• Sinclair Lewis: "Pinkish, redhead, hair smooth and flattened in front, neglected, dishevelled and bunched in brief strands behind.
• He was lying on the dishevelled bed, a sticky gutter of blood marked from his temple down to the collar of his uniform.
• In the midst of the hubbub Senator Beveridge appeared on the floor with his hair very much dishevelled as he cried out, 'Where is that blankety-blank preacher, we want him to .

• tousle
• dishevel
• tangle
• disheveled
• frowzled
• rumpled
• tousled

News & Articles

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• Marshall Islands Castaway Just Wants to Go Back to Mexico
  Jose Salvador Alvarengo was met by about 1,000 onlookers at the dock, who greeted the dishevelled fisherman before he was taken away for a medical check-up.
  Feb. 3, 2014 - HispanicBusiness.com

Quotes

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• Sir Trevor McDonald in guardian.co.uk
  Sir Trevor said: "He was in a state of considerable shock. He looked very dishevelled. He looked as though he had been through a pretty horrifying experience."
• Michael Atherton in guardian.co.uk
  Or indeed of enduring 12 hours in a train carriage with Dermot Reeve and his guitar, an experience Atherton described as "enough to make anyone feel utterly dishevelled".
• Toby Dodge in guardian.co.uk
  For ordinary Iraqis to see the former tyrant dishevelled, being manhandled and pulled from a hole is the final moment of liberation from the dictatorship,said Toby Dodge, an Iraq specialist at Warwick University and the International...