badly groomed
Example Sentences
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"The princess resembles a badly groomed suburban young woman, her hands roughened at the kitchen sink, about to pick up a tray," wrote the Daily Mail.
From Time Magazine Archive
The excessive naturalness of this badly groomed Cat surprised me in its violent contrast to all that I had seen in London.
From Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales by Carl Van Vechten
She was badly groomed and thin, but much of her old spirit remained.
From Wilfrid Cumbermede by George MacDonald
A shabbily dressed and badly groomed individual has less chance of employment than a person of average appearance.
From Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy by Thomas Colignatus
Wrathfully she glanced at the poor old beasts, the bones sticking out of their wrinkled, badly groomed skin like those of a skeleton.
From A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day by Fritz Oswald Bilse
