unruffling

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Verb

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unruffling

  1. present participle and gerund of unruffle

Adjective

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unruffling (comparative more unruffling, superlative most unruffling)

  1. Not creating ruffles or stress.
    • 2007 October 28, Suzanne Slesin, “Where Understatement Is the Watchword”, in New York Times[1]:
      The fire escapes had been transformed into 108-square-foot terraces, and there was a general feeling of understatement and an unusual sense of being in a civilized, unruffling place.