Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Rumpled.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Rumpled.

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  • adjective obsolete rumpled

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Examples

  • That's the critical question confronting men's professional basketball as it recovers from the embarrassing playoff sweep of the reborn, attention-addicted New York Knicks by the rumply, out-of-date Boston Celtics.

    The Credits Roll on New York's NBA Season Jason Gay 2011

  • Their round, rumply rockiness makes a nice contrast in shape to the narrow-ruled notepaper layout of the surrounding farmlands.

    Canada 2010

  • He's so rumply and wheezy at first that he doesn't seem to have a grip on his character as the failed son.

    Flying High 2007

  • If you leave things too damp, they will feel rough and look rumply afterward.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • If you leave things too damp, they will feel rough and look rumply afterward.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • If you leave things too damp, they will feel rough and look rumply afterward.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • If you leave things too damp, they will feel rough and look rumply afterward.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • Hennessy was a great rumply bear of a man who smoked foul cigars, the best that thirteen cents can buy.

    The Shadow Box Maxim, John R. 1996

  • We will take off our boys 'little old, hot rumply shirts, and put them into their nice cool nighties, and be glad that we have everything in the world -- almost!

    The Heart of Rachael Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • Very proudly and seemingly unconscious of, or, at least, oblivious to, the derisive remarks that the appearance of these new belongings drew from many persons, the owner went clumping about in them, with the rumply legs of his trousers tucked down in them, and ballooning up and out over the tops in folds which overlapped from his knee joints halfway down his attenuated calves.

    The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

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