rumpled
adj1
Wrinkled or crumpled.
- A demure-looking woman, in a dress rather tawdry and rumpled, here drew her veil well down and rose; but, marking every eye upon her, thought it advisable, upon the whole, to sit down again.1857, Herman Melville, chapter XVIII, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade:
- The rumpled octogenarian and two-time presidential candidate [Bernie Sanders] has no plans to seek the Oval Office again.2025 March 21, Francine Kiefer, Caitlin Babcock, “As Democrats look for a fighter, Bernie Sanders is striking a chord – again”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
- Derived terms
- rumpledness, unrumpled