ill-groomed

Foer works this mock-heroic metaphor to death, honouring his colleagues – ill-groomed and unsocialised wonks, who wear blinkers and blacked-out goggles when competing – as "mental athletes" or "warriors of the mind".

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer – review 2011

Using our own special brand of dubious logic we synthesize these two disparate facts and arrive at the following irrefutable truth: In conjunction with the rise of metrosexuality, their must be, in rural areas, a corresponding increase in the number of poorly dressed, ill-groomed, decidedly unfabulous gay men.

Coinage Contest: Unfabulous Edition Slimbolala 2005

Using our own special brand of dubious logic we synthesize these two disparate facts and arrive at the following irrefutable truth: In conjunction with the rise of metrosexuality, their must be, in rural areas, a corresponding increase in the number of poorly dressed, ill-groomed, decidedly unfabulous gay men.

Archive 2005-07-01 Slimbolala 2005

At any rate, she had not the touzled, ill-groomed hair which he had learned to associate with female genius.

Red Pottage 2004

Then this, eddying, floating, described semicircles in the air like a bird, and was caught before it reached the ground in the ill-groomed mane of the old white mare standing motionless at the door.

Madame Bovary 2003

They were middle-aged, unshaven and ill-groomed altogether, two engineers or something of that sort, but quite as speechless and uncivil as the grandest of the traveling British clowns.

Look Back on Happiness 2003

But it was there that Hugh found him, white-blazed face, white forefeet and all, grown somewhat shaggy and ill-groomed, but otherwise in very good condition.

The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983

But it was there that Hugh found him, white-blazed face, white forefeet and all, grown somewhat shaggy and ill-groomed, but otherwise in very good condition.

The Devil's Novice Peters, Ellis, 1913- 1983

They would not have me seen by their friends and neighbors looking shabby, or ill-groomed.

Flowers in the Attic V.C. Andrews 1979

They would not have me seen by their friends and neighbors looking shabby, or ill-groomed.

Flowers in the Attic V.C. Andrews 1979