unshaven

Example Sentences

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His two main characters, infantrymen named Willie and Joe, were bedraggled, unshaven, dirty, tired to the bone, contemptuous of authority—in other words, mirror images of many of the real soldiers fighting that war.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Gurr didn’t recognize the company patriarch — “an older guy, unshaven, kinda ratty looking” — when he put his leg up on one of the tires of the mini-car.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2025

To go unshaven in the midst of personal hardship is so ubiquitous in popular media, and perhaps real life, that TV Tropes has a page dedicated to the “Beard of Sorrow.”

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2024

A photograph released Friday of Mr. Lee in his hospital bed showed him looking unshaven and uncharacteristically weak, but everyone buys it.

From Washington Times • Sep. 22, 2023

He was unshaven and it appeared that he had not slept in quite a while.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela