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  • I remember the professor saying to the class, so for a guy to demonstrate his masculinity to attract women, he has to be sloppy, rude, poorly-dressed, which is exactly what the women want.

    The lure of the forbidden book Angie Fox 2009

  • However from the impression she made on Sarah we can assume she will be playing a giant, poorly-dressed starlet who storms New York City in a Godzilla-like fury.

    Sarah Jessica Parker Doesn’t Have The Babies She Wasn’t Pregnant With 2009

  • An hour later, and half a block down the street, I am once again a poorly-dressed, shaggy unknown (and secret Internet Superstar).

    Jonathan Coulton: Internet Famous 2009

  • That's because it doesn't address the question they really want to ask: is this poorly-dressed, shaggy fellow a famous rock star, or is he just an unemployed guy in a crappy rock band?

    Jonathan Coulton: Internet Famous 2009

  • Russell Crowe is in strong form as a star investigative reporter definitely of the old school, deftly handling the time-honored cliches of being poorly-dressed, ultra-messy, overweight, and driving a decidedly unstylish car.

    William Bradley: The State of Play of "State of Play" 2009

  • Hours later, there is another man, a much smaller and more poorly-dressed one, sitting at the keyboard glumly.

    Dear TiVo lysana 2005

  • But, you know, I found myself -- everyone was so tastefully dressed, I found myself yearning for someone poorly-dressed so that I could talk about it.

    CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2005 2005

  • Sometimes there came to the house a ragged, poorly-dressed, grey - headed, awkward, amorphous — in short, a very strange-looking — little old man.

    Poor Folk 2003

  • Now she was a modestly and poorly-dressed young girl, very young, indeed, almost like a child, with a modest and refined manner, with a candid but somewhat frightened-looking face.

    Crime and Punishment 2002

  • The first is reversed compassion, where instead of having compassion for well-dressed people who are acting destructively, we have compassion for poorly-dressed practitioners who are really doing constructive things: "Oh, these poor meditators who live in caves, they have nothing to eat."

    General Explanation of Seven-Point Attitude-Training ��� Part Three: Point Seven 1999

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