disheveled
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The disheveled 58-year-old, who went by Tony, was a cousin of the recently deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
A disheveled man sick of endless waiting launched into an eloquent tirade ending with Samuel Beckett -- "You know what happened in the story of Godot? He never came."
From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026
He’s a disheveled figure who drives around town in a tattered van and lives above the rare bookstore that he also happens to own.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2025
His words reveal a man who knows the world sees him differently from the truth of the flawed, disheveled guy staring back at him from the mirror every morning.
From Salon • Jul. 24, 2025
He moved in a loose-jointed, disheveled sort of way, all arms and legs, talking in Yiddish to one of his teammates and ignoring me completely as he passed by.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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