(v. t.) To suffer (the hair) to hang loosely or disorderly; to spread or throw (the hair) in disorder; -- used chiefly in the passive participle.
(v. t.) To spread loosely or disorderly.
(v. i.) To be spread in disorder or hang negligently, as the hair.
Example Sentences:
(1) "When I look at a lot of other bands, it does seem that we're the strange minority," says drummer, Jeremy Gara, who, with his standy-up hair and dishevelled clothes, seems the most old-school indie musician of them all.
(2) TSD rats had not shown similarly low Tb until just prior to death, but had shown signs of severe pathology, including severely debilitated appearance, disheveled fur, and severe lesions on their tails and on the plantar surfaces of their paws.
(3) The 56-year-old president, looking dishevelled but calm, said he had been expelled by "rightwing oligarchs" and promised to return to Honduras.
(4) l(1)dishevelled (l(1)dsh) is a late zygotic lethal mutation that exhibits a rescuable maternal effect lethal phenotype.
(5) WR 2721 produced lethargy, unsteady gait, and dishevelment but these signs all resolved completely within 1-3 days in survivors.
(6) With Mark Noble to the fore, Arsenal suddenly looked dishevelled and it was no exaggeration to say they were hanging on.
(7) Even so, it must have been alarming for Wenger to see how dishevelled they were in the first half, when Calum Chambers was a danger to his own team.
(8) The arty kind, the kind that comes with handsome, dishevelled hair and record deals, and brief stints in the legendary McLean Hospital.
(9) In walks a rather dishevelled looking Lil Wayne, who seems to be in a huff about an autograph hunter who was waiting in the lobby.
(10) Arsenal’s dishevelled look was not helped when Lukas Podolski, about to come on as a late substitute, realised he did not have any shin pads and had to borrow Özil’s.
(11) President Alassane Ouattara took power in April, with the help of French and UN forces, after a dishevelled Gbagbo was plucked from his bunker .
(12) All that can be said for certain is that they were dishevelled enough to make it a genuine debate.
(13) Seconds later, the dishevelled couple leave the booth and drop their ballots in a box, as the ad's slogan is displayed on the screen: "Let's do it together".
(14) He is angry, dishevelled and making no attempt to soften his message for the tiny handful of TV cameras that have shown up.
(15) Milan had dominated possession at the San Siro but it was Diego Simeone’s side that left an away goal to the good, thanks to a wonderful, late header from dishevelled’s Diego Costa.
(16) Let’s just be brutally honest about that stereotype: an eccentric bohemian hippy, unkempt beard, John Lennon-style glasses, wading through muesli in dishevelled sandals.
(17) Built like a truck, and as dishevelled as a trucker, he used his frame and his unkemptness with immense dexterity.
(18) For Everton, dishevelled and despondent by the end, what was most galling was that they had almost beaten themselves.
(19) Inside, a man wearing a dishevelled beige suit stops whatever it is he has been doing and asks if he can help.
(20) United, once again, wore a dishevelled look and it was bordering on desperation when the substitute Adnan Januzaj was booked for another dive.
Muddle
Definition:
(v. t.) To make turbid, or muddy, as water.
(v. t.) To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
(v. t.) To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
(v. t.) To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify.
(v. i.) To dabble in mud.
(v. i.) To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
(n.) A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Of course, every divorce is costly; but muddling through would be even more costly.
(2) The failure to make the single currency work with a wider group of countries means that the attempt to muddle through has reached the end of its natural life.
(3) Instead, we're likely to be stuck with more muddling-through.
(4) "In this era where we see growing open-mindedness, his actions are muddle-headed and careless," said the letter, which was briefly posted to the internet before it was taken down by censors .
(5) Although it remains unclear why he chose to place the muddled woman in a kitchen – clinging to her mug and surrounded by children's toys – as opposed to say, in a laboratory or a truck, he claims all the words were authentically spoken by "women in dozens of focus groups around the country", prior to being stitched together in this latest triumph for the fashionable, verbatim school of drama.
(6) McCluskey, with Unite probably Labour’s single largest donor, has claimed Labour lost the election not because it was too leftwing but largely because it had a muddled message on austerity and lacked a coherent narrative linking together individually popular policies.
(7) A toxic mix of cuts and muddled thinking about personalisation has led some to suggest that social work is an optional extra in adult social care.
(8) Hungry delphiniums, water-loving astilbe and drought-tolerant lupins would all be muddled together, with the thirstiest plants dictating the watering regime.
(9) United were sterile in possession, the ball was given away with monotonous regularity in dangerous positions and their muddled thinking was encapsulated by the sight of Phil Jones taking a couple of corners and Neil Swarbrick, the referee, penalising Antonio Valencia for a foul throw.
(10) Having read her book and met her, however, I wouldn't be surprised if the debate becomes muddled with how she presents her case – because she annoyed me so much when we met, we almost ended up having a row, despite the fact that I agree with a great deal of what she says.
(11) Drinks at Jade Bar are in keeping with the spa setting: fruity and herbaceous “muddles” (alcoholic or not) are a speciality, and the bartenders host mixology sessions on Sundays, or by appointment.
(12) At the time they were stressful – battling with traffic, fights over radio stations, squabbles over who was going to sit in the front seat and listening to a muddle of languages together with drama lines and songs to be sung.
(13) Sara Parkin London • It is very apposite of Zoe Williams ( Opinion , 25 February) to quote Roberto Unger with regard to the supposed “unmasking” of the Green party leader as some kind of political fraud; namely, she tried to answer a question directly and got into a bit of a muddle.
(14) Sean Spicer muddles answer when pressed on Trump and Russia investigation Read more Page, like Trump, has challenged US policy towards Russia and called for warmer relations between the two countries.
(15) Like Rona Jaffe's novel of the 50s, The Best of Everything – a book that Rakoff loves and reread before she started work on My Salinger Year – it is concerned with what it feels like to move to the big city, to take on your first job, and to struggle to survive on a tiny salary when all the while your dreams are seemingly being snuffed out at every turn, and your love life is spiralling into muddle and mayhem.
(16) Wallace is a hopeless deadpan dropout, a loser in love and a bumbling muddle.
(17) This is a very badly timed speech, showing some very muddled and dangerous thinking.
(18) The substitutions were muddle-headed, the team too negative, he might have won the World Cup but now he had lost it.
(19) The reality for many disabled people is it’s a muddle and a minefield to have an easy pee.
(20) 'A tremendous wrench': Sir Ivan Rogers's resignation email in full Read more He wrote: “I hope you will continue to challenge ill-founded arguments and muddled thinking and that you will never be afraid to speak the truth to those in power.