Unruffle

It is difficult not to chuckle in mordant fashion as the Obama spokespeople unruffle their lace cuffs and sniff at the ungentlemanly conduct of the Republican swine. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"If people's feathers got ruffled, we want to unruffle them." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Trying to unruffle my feathers and thinking of a rejoinder. ❋ 1 Dinosaur (2008)

I know you are right Your Snarkiness, but your ability to tip your hat to the publishing industry didn't do much to unruffle my feathers. ❋ Miss Snark (2005)

There's an effort on Capitol Hill to try to unruffle some feathers. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Listen to me, dear little father, unruffle that frowning brow and reckon, you can do so without trouble, not with pebbles, but on your fingers, what is the sum-total of the tribute paid by the allied towns; besides this we have the direct imposts, ❋ Unknown (2000)

Tom was packed in ten minutes, all except what his aunt and Mary would finish up for him; then we waited ten more for her to get cooled down and sweet and gentle again; for Tom said it took her ten minutes to unruffle in times when half of her feathers was up, but twenty when they was all up, and this was one of the times when they was all up. ❋ Unknown (1896)

Prokofy Neva: today I literally spent 2 hours trying to unruffle tenants, get land and stuff back to normal, it was awful ❋ Unknown (2009)

I'm brewing some chai tea to unruffle our liberal feathers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some people in Britain eventually realized this as well, but by then it was too late to unruffle the colonists’ feathers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I spread her pink fingertips out as one would unruffle a rose, and read therein her fate. " ❋ Dora Sigerson Shorter (1892)