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disheveled

[ dih-shev-uhld ]

adjective

  1. hanging loosely or in disorder; unkempt:

    disheveled hair.

  2. untidy; disarranged:

    a disheveled appearance.

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Other Word Forms

  • ܲd·ı 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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A disheveled woman then emerges from the side of the building, meets Frankie’s stare and moves off into the night.

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Moments later, a frantic housekeeper rifles through the kitchen drawers, then returns to raise a heavy marble rolling pin over the disheveled and bloodied figure, who is by all appearances pleading for her life.

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We learn that this disheveled gangster has bona fide empathy.

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With a gimlet eye and a surprisingly girlish laugh, Vera is cantankerous, impatient, intensely private, unapologetically disheveled and utterly glorious.

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Buddy was seen at the Kings game looking rather disheveled, with what appeared to be an unlit cigarette in his mouth and drinking what appeared to be a beer.

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