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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

"No, I do not think you are milord Quorn, my good fellow," he concluded, taking Lady Ormstork's view of the badly groomed object of his scrutiny.

From A Poached Peerage by William Magnay

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

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

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


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