rumply

[ ruhm-plee ]

adjective

, rum·pli·er, rum·pli·est.

1. rumpled or tending to rumple:

   This suit always looks rumply.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rumply¹

First recorded in 1825–35; rumple + -y ¹

Example Sentences

But on the red carpet, where individuals alone have the power to define themselves as glittering stars, rarefied gazelles, eccentric raconteurs or rumply intellectuals, it was possible to get at least a peek at the breadth of creativity in La-La-Land.

From Washington Post

Wodehouse golf story character—gruff and tormented and rumply, flawed but only perfectly so like Archibald Mealing or Chester Meredith or made wise by the scars of a lifetime in the game like the Oldest Member.

From Golf Digest

I think that remains the most sublime moment of this surreal, interminable, Major-League-Bonkers Deflategate saga: rumply, grumpy Emperor Bill stepping to the lectern at his Patriots fortress and, with a fragile command of the Ideal Gas Law—“I am not a scientist...I would not say I’m Mona Lisa Vito of the football world,” he said, referencing the essential text, “My Cousin Vinny”—trying to debunk the suggestion there had been funny business with the footballs before New England’s thrashing of Indianapolis in the AFC Championship.

From Wall Street Journal

Ms. Rodgers was acquainted with the lyricist Hart, who she said bestowed “lavish” presents, and Hammerstein, whom she described as “great, big, tweedy, rumply, gentle-voiced . . . but, on occasion, sharp-tongued.”

From Washington Post

For instance, Robert Geller, known for a sort of slouchy aesthetic, likes to start with clothes that look rumply and wrinkled by design, pre-empting the dishabille that heat will inflict.

From New York Times