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poorly dressed



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In fact, when he was fatally hit by a streetcar in 1926, he was so poorly dressed he was taken to a hospital for the poor and homeless.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2015

"I feel so poorly dressed," joked Clinton, sporting conventional evening wear, in opening remarks.

From Reuters • May 31, 2014

The man was found by a passerby in a snowdrift east of Oslo in December, semi-conscious and poorly dressed for the winter.

From BBC • Apr. 11, 2014

There are frequent objections to the show’s stereotypical characters: socially awkward, poorly dressed, pining for unobtainable women, and so forth.

From Scientific American • Jan. 28, 2013

White cloths covered all the statues, so it looked like a room filled with poorly dressed ghosts.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi