verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
tousled especially literary (= a little untidy, in a way that looks attractive )
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his youthfully handsome face and tousled hair that hung untidily over his collar
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hair
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She was smiling out at him, her long blond hair tousled .
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His eyes were ice-blue, his hair soft and tousled brown, his mustache immaculately trimmed.
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His hair was all tousled , a scarf round his neck, touching his braces.
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His tie was pulled loose, his shirt unbuttoned, and his hair was tousled .
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By Sloanes For Hair Sexy long, blonde hair has been tousled with styling mousse.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He could sec her troubled eyebrows, her tousled hair as she sat brooding about what might be happening in Rome.
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Her hair, which Polly had thought a mess, might also have been described as gloriously tousled, ravishingly unkempt.
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His hair was all tousled, a scarf round his neck, touching his braces.
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It would have been too similar to the accompanying picture featuring a slightly tousled Stafford kissing Celestine.
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She was smiling out at him, her long blond hair tousled.
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Springing up, she smoothed back her tousled hair and hurriedly unbolted the door to Bethany smiling at her.
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Two great tousled blonde manes with platinum highlights.
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Under the tousle of thick blond hair, he looks like a small child again.