adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
dishevelled especially literary (= very untidy )
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His face was bright red and his hair looked dishevelled.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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She was conscious of her rather dishevelled appearance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He looked dishevelled and felt it.
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Her hair was dishevelled and her green eyes full of sleep.
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His landlady had said that Drew had returned in a dishevelled state about 1.00am from the opposite direction from the theatre.
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In the fourth cell there is a man with long dishevelled hair.
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One is relaxed, the other dishevelled .
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She sat in the dishevelled shabby glamour of her bedroom and stared out of the window for hours at a time.
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The distressed and dishevelled schoolgirl was found whimpering in the garden by the owner of the bungalow.
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The other passengers drew back from the dishevelled river dwellers, so far out of their element.