Crossword clues for disarrangement
disarrangement
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disarrangement \Dis`ar*range"ment\, n.
The act of disarranging, or the state of being disarranged;
confusion; disorder.
--Cowper.
Wiktionary
n. upset of the normal order.
WordNet
n. a condition in which an orderly system has been disrupted [syn: disorganization, disorganisation]
Usage examples of "disarrangement".
The slight disarrangement of his cuff uncovered an empty buttonhole in the wrist of his shirt.
I brushed Adele's hair and made her neat, and having ascertained that I was myself in my usual Quaker trim, where there was nothing to retouch -- all being too close and plain, braided locks included, to admit of disarrangement -- we descended, Adele wondering whether the petit coffre was at length come.
Its magnificence was tempered, as it were, by the slight disarrangements occasioned by its being dwelt in, and all the objects scattered around displayed the taste of her who hallowed it by her presence.
I could see that someone had eased sly fingers between my folded clothes in the chest of drawers, had deftly gone through the files, leaving everything much as it had been, but with faint disarrangements here and there.
He and his companions here played the game they were given, maintained monastic silence at all times, suffered without comment the shifts in lodging and the disarrangements which were meant to unbalance them—a tactic merely aimed at weakening them in negotiation, Ayres hoped, and not that more dire possibility, that it presaged a seizure of their own persons for interrogation.