disheveled

Example Sentences

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In thrall to her mission, June rents a dusty, disheveled storage room in town.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

And while it didn’t exactly fly off the shelves, its concurrence with the height of the Seattle grunge music scene made the disheveled aesthetic a street-style must-have.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 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

Leaving the library as the center of the museum’s north side, Mr. Adjaye made eight other slightly smaller pavilions, which he grouped in the form of a slightly disheveled tic-tac-toe board.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025

The camera would love them, no matter what they were wearing or how disheveled their hair had become.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall