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rumpled

Anything wrinkled or disheveled is rumpled. Unless you make your bed neatly in the morning, your blankets will still be rumpled when you climb in at bedtime.

You'll make a better impression at a job interview if you wear crisp pants and an ironed shirt than if you show up in a rumpled suit. You can even describe a person as looking rumpled, if they seem generally messy and bedraggled. The adjective rumpled comes from the verb rumple, which is most likely a variation on the now-obsolete rimple, "to wrinkle."

Definitions of rumpled
  1. adjective
    in disarray; extremely disorderly
    “a rumpled unmade bed”
    untidy
    not neat and tidy
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