dishevelment
Example Sentences
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In a move that could easily be out of former UK prime minister Boris Johnson's sartorial playbook, Musk has gone for a hint of dishevelment on a serious and ceremonial day.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2025
You get the feeling that second only to Tom Brady’s hatred of losing is his hatred of dishevelment, indignity.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2020
The cast is universally strong, especially Herbers, who, with her warm eyes and her air of wary dishevelment, makes Kristen feel strange and a little dirty, as if she were burying enormous, chaotic emotions.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2019
I sighed and, accepting my unavoidable state of dishevelment, entered the mansion itself.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2017
They ran to the stands with their bright red shirts sticking out of their grass-stained pants in glorious dishevelment.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
