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disheveled

[ dih-shev-uhld ]

adjective

  1. hanging loosely or in disorder; unkempt:

    disheveled hair.

  2. untidy; disarranged:

    a disheveled appearance.

    Synonyms: sloppy, slovenly, messy



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  • undi·sheveled adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of disheveled1

1375–1425; late Middle English discheveled < Old French deschevele, past participle of descheveler to dishevel the hair, equivalent to des- dis- 1 + -cheveler, derivative of chevel a hair < Latin capillus

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Example Sentences

Lemkin hung around the proceedings, disheveled and unkempt, but determined.

When he expresses concern over her bruised and disheveled appearance, she lies and tells him that she fainted.

The seizing of an American reporter was only a matter of time, and the bespectacled and disheveled Ostrovsky was a prime target.

In the language of fashion, their twenty-something, cool-girl angst apparently translates to “disheveled ball gown chic.”

When he arrived there, the disheveled outdoorsman was greeted at the airport by hundreds of fans.

At this point Harry entered and stood afar off, eying Punch, a disheveled heap in the corner of the room, with disgust.

"I have been weeping," she replied sweetly, staunching her wound with a lock of her long disheveled hair.

At the center of the sanctuary stood Perrette the Ribald, her hair disheveled like a Bacchante's.

Still warm from his ride and insultingly disheveled, he sat in the imitation of the great throne on his capital planet, Hebryxid.

This tree, as well as the drooping acacia, leaned over the ground with long leaves like disheveled hair.

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