disheveled

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  1. adjective Being in loose disarray; unkempt, as hair or clothing.
  2. adjective Marked by disorder; untidy: a disheveled pile of books on the library table.

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  • Even somewhat disheveled, and bundled in her robe over her costume, she was beautiful. —  Reality Check by Piers Anthony
  • She was like a homeless woman, disheveled, her face puffy, her hair in tangles and unclean, her mouth slack, clothes dirty. —  The Lesson of Her Death
  • Her hair was disheveled, her face pale, her image distorted. —  Jackson, Lisa - See How she dies 2
  • And when she finally returned—dirty, disheveled, and defiant—she announced that she had been with the hermit. —  Muller, Marcia - [McCone 08] Eye of the Storm UC FR.htm
  • And she was aware too of the sounds of shattering china and of raucous merriment from belowstairs If you are planning to use your knee on an attacker," the Duke of Mitford said to a flushed, disheveled, and diminutive female, "it is the most cork-brained thing I ever heard of, ma'am, to tell him so. —  Mary Balogh - Unlikely Duchess
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  1. Middle English discheveled, from Old French deschevele, past participle of descheveler, to disarrange the hair : des-, apart; see dis- + chevel, hair (from Latin capillus).
 

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