rumpled

comparative more rumpled · superlative most rumpled

1. Wrinkled or crumpled.

   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

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   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

   But at the time, the rumpled shirts Thurston wore with the too-short sleeves and the elbows worn out, the cat he owned named Sweetface, the tortoiseshell guitar that was the same color as Sweetface’s fur, the subtle charisma and sensitivity, the fact that he’d lost his dad at eighteen and didn’t seem to want to talk about it—all those things made me fall for him.

   2015, Kim Gordon, chapter 18, in Carrie Thornton, editor, Girl in a Band, New York: Dey st., →ISBN, page 115

   Synonyms: rumply, crumply, bewrinkled, rugose, wrinkly, bewrinkled, creased, lined

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of rumple