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Answer for the clue "Tousled ", 6 letters:
mussed

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: muss )

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Muss \Muss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mussed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Mussing .] To disarrange, as clothing; to rumple; -- often used with up; as, the wind mussed up my hair. [Colloq. U.S.]

Usage examples of mussed.

She got it out, creased and mussed from being crammed into a pocket too small.

It might have been fun to see if you get mussed up when you're having sex.

Rome had in­deed hired a housekeeper, a nice comfortable middle-aged woman who didn’t at all mind receiving a nice salary for cleaning an apartment that was never really mussed anyway.

Sex with her would be hot and long, writhing on that bed with her, and she wouldn't worry if he mussed her hair or smeared her makeup.

Her blond hair had been mussed, and her green eyes expressed an amazing mixture of concern and outrage.

Drunk, as he was now, unshaven and with his hair mussed and hanging in dirty strings, his eyes red and rheumy with alcohol, his face bloated, there was nothing the least attractive about him.

His hair was a little mussed, but in the dim light that was, at first, the only thing she noted that was different.

I, in my rumpled sweats and T-shirt, black duster, and mussed hair, felt very slouchy.

Their perfect tennis whites were stained, their beautiful complexions were mussed, and best of all, their flawless hair was standing up every which way.

My clothes were spattered in blood (and worse), my face was rough with the shadow of a beard, my hair was so mussed that it was approaching trendy, and I can't even imagine what I would have smelled like to anyone walking in.

Two suits, both of mussed and creased from long storage, and an equally trio of shirts had been laid across one of the seats.

Our brass in mussed civvies, looking like they've been sleeping in their clothes.

She seemed a little surprised to see a private soldier (he was now a private, the sergeant major had told him, and his records would indicate that he had satisfactorily completed basic training) in a mussed uniform, but he had passed the Keeper of the Portals, and must be presumed to be a bona fide guest.

The lieutenant at first appeared surprised to see a private soldier in the Admiral's Club, but when he noticed the mussed uniform, he, too, seemed unable to see Geoff.

Marines do not appear in public in mussed, sweaty uniforms, much less report for duty that way.