Ruffling Synonyms and Antonyms

To walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. dishevelling
  2. vexing
  3. swaggering
  4. strutting
  5. provoking
  6. nettling
  7. irritating
  8. irking
  9. fretting
  10. disturbing
  11. sashaying
  12. wrinkling
  13. upsetting
  14. riling
  15. unsettling
  16. shaking
  17. rumpling
  18. roiling
  19. rippling
  20. riffling
  21. puckering
  22. bothering
  23. pleating
  24. plaiting
  25. perturbing
  26. getting
  27. annoying
  28. tousling
  29. intimidating
  30. fraying
  31. exasperating
  32. fluttering
  33. flustering
  34. prancing
  35. disordering
  36. chafing
  37. disconcerting
  38. discomposing
  39. disarranging
  40. bugging
  41. deranging
  42. crinkling
  43. crimping
  44. brandishing
  45. agitating
  46. abrading
  47. aggravating
Antonyms:
  1. smoothing
Mix so as to make a random order or arrangement
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. mixing
  2. shuffling
Pleat or gather into a ruffle
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. pleating

Words Related to Ruffling

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Ruffling Sentence Examples

  • He knelt, ruffling the snow from Darian's hair.

  • The room was filled with dust and the wind whistled through the screens, ruffling the pages of her book as it lay on the floor.

  • The breeze ruffling the curls that escaped from her bun went around him, not touching his coat.

  • He sat down by his wife, his elbows on his knees and his hands ruffling his gray hair.

  • They'll be ruffling feathers and building shopping malls in Ankara next.

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