(a.) Having in loose disorder; disarranged; as, disheveled hair.
(a.) Having the hair in loose disorder.
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.
Unkempt
Definition:
(a.) Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair.
(a.) Fig.; Not smoothed; unpolished; rough.
Example Sentences:
(1) While speaking to a group of drivers in the park, an unkempt lady interrupted us with taunts.
(2) Isolation and analysis of mutations affecting the unkempt gene, including complete deletions of this gene, indicate that there is no zygotic requirement for unkempt during embryogenesis, presumably due to the contribution of maternally supplied RNA, although the gene is essential during post-embryonic development.
(3) In a typical outbreak, 5% of the pullets were stunted and listless with unkempt feathers.
(4) Unkempt, exhausted families arrive every few minutes at the Sacred Heart church hall in downtown McAllen, eight miles from the Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley.
(5) The eternal undergraduate, all rumpled shirt, baggy cords, student specs and unkempt hair, he looks as though he's just got out of bed - which he has.
(6) 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.
(7) Kate was in jeans, looking a little unkempt and sleep-deprived, telling bystanders that the month-old Prince George "is with Granny at the moment" and "sleeping for now, fingers crossed!"
(8) Built like a truck, and as dishevelled as a trucker, he used his frame and his unkemptness with immense dexterity.
(9) As the prosecution spoke, Tsarnaev looked almost relaxed, his goatee trimmed, his hair fluffy and unkempt, wearing a grey suit and open-necked shirt.
(10) The unkempt gene of Drosophila encodes a set of embryonic RNAs, which are abundant during early stages of embryogenesis and are present ubiquitously in most somatic tissues from the syncytial embryo through stage 15 of embryogenesis.
(11) Expression of unkempt RNAs becomes restricted predominantly to the central nervous system in stages 16 and early 17.
(12) A burgeoning excrement problem In a nearby grassy plaza kids are tearing around a playground and some office workers kick a soccer ball about near several unkempt men and women who are sleeping or visibly high.
(13) But while Sanders continues to gain momentum and money, political observers remain wary of whether the unkempt septuagenarian socialist can actually defeat Clinton in the era of almost unlimited campaign spending, or whether Democratic voters are just enjoying what one political operative in New Hampshire this week called “a summer fling”.
(14) Randomly approached lower-ranking enlistees and draftees are much more likely to complain about their disease, even if minor, and are more likely to refuse to shave and be unkempt even without permission to grow a beard (in contravention of Army regulations).
(15) The room was full of sunlight, and now I saw him clearly: a stocky man, thirties, unkempt, with a round friendly face and unruly hair.
(16) Domestic chicks experimentally infected with Echinostoma caproni for 2 weeks showed a dilated ileum, unkempt feathers, watery diarrhoea, and weight loss.
(17) In that part of the forest is the unkempt and unloved world of civil service pay and reward.
(18) At that time, 78% of respondents thought that the vogue among young people of cultivating an unkempt look was past or on the wane (Table 1.).
(19) Both genes modify the normal smooth coat to a more upright, somewhat unkempt pelage.
(20) True, you could spot Hannah's backcombed bob and Dot's unkempt bird's nest in silhouette.