What's the difference between dishevelled and untidy?

Dishevelled


Definition:

  • () of Dishevel

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.

Untidy


Definition:

  • (a.) Unseasonable; untimely.
  • (a.) Not tidy or neat; slovenly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nomboniso Gasa, an academic who introduced Ramphele to the media at an Agang SA launch event nearly a year ago, expressed disappointment at her U-turn: "I do think Mamphela has been extremely untidy in the way she's dealt with this.
  • (2) So the second about-turn means Delph may have has questions to answer regarding his thought process throughout an saga that has become untidy.
  • (3) The three of us agreed it was quiet, non-threatening, not particularly untidy, just a bit rundown – and obviously a very low-income area.
  • (4) There will be many Lib Dems – not just those close to Nick Clegg – who will be happy at his untidy end, leaving not just the party, but also politics.
  • (5) That thing of people rolling over and going, "Oh, it looks like I'm making things a bit untidy.
  • (6) So there's more untidy law waiting to be reformed or reconciled.
  • (7) Rollings was bright, charming, slightly untidy; he became Foxtons’ fixer, its good cop.
  • (8) I did once butterfly a leg of lamb while watching a YouTube video of someone demonstrating the procedure, but the result was pretty untidy.
  • (9) He lacks a bit of control in his frame so it all feels a bit untidy, but a very good start.
  • (10) Brook took his chance in a tight and at times untidy clash, with the judges handing him the contest 114-114, 117-111, 116-112.
  • (11) This campaign has unravelled and, while they could justifiably depart here bemoaning the non-award of a second-half penalty and even disputing the validity of Crystal Palace’s opening goal, this was all too frenzied and untidy for comfort.
  • (12) He told media that he used the word to refer to "untidy" women, not in a derogatory way.
  • (13) Surgeons should realize that their major involvements in research will lie in the relatively untidy field of clinical science, and it is hoped that this view will continue to influence the activities of the SRS.
  • (14) Three problems the authors think important in replantation of untidy amputations are discussed based on our 99 replantations with the success rate of 92.6% over a 4-year period.
  • (15) The momentum should have been theirs after Azpilicueta’s untidy lunge, studs up, into Mile Jedinak, but hope proved horribly short-lived.
  • (16) In an untidy start Sebastián Coates, perhaps momentarily forgetting he was no longer an Anfield defender, gifted possession to Philippe Coutinho.
  • (17) The ruling clears the way for the publication of the “black spider” memos, so called because of the prince’s notoriously untidy handwriting.
  • (18) He will need to get his hands dirty in the untidy and ruthless business that is Indian politics," one said in a cable entitled The son also rises: Rahul Gandhi takes another step towards top job.
  • (19) Littlewood was born out of wedlock in Stockwell, south London, to a mother who frowned on books, and she wrote later of feeling ugly, untidy and alien.
  • (20) He also caused controversy in 1999 in Edinburgh when he saw an untidy fuse box during a tour of a factory.

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