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dishevelled

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 (qualifier: of a person) With the hair uncombed. 2 (qualifier: by extension) disorderly or untidy in appearance. v (en-past of: dishevel )

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Dishevelled ( Dsh ) is a family of proteins involved in canonical and non-canonical Wnt signalling pathways . Dsh is a cytoplasmic phosphoprotein that acts directly downstream of frizzled receptors. It takes its name from its initial discovery in flies ...

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES dishevelled especially literary (= very untidy ) ▪ His face was bright red and his hair looked dishevelled. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ She was conscious of her rather dishevelled appearance. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
disheveled \di*shev"eled\, dishevelled \di*shev"elled\, a. Hanging in loose disorder; disarranged; in disarray; not made neat; -- used especially of hair or clothing; as, disheveled hair. Having the hair in loose disorder. The dancing maidens are disheveled ...

Usage examples of dishevelled.

She commented on it with strong disapproval to her guardian, who had drawn up beside her at a check, but he merely looked faintly surprised, and said that the notion of Brummell muddied and dishevelled from a long day in the saddle was too absurd to be contemplated.

June took one last scan around the gaslit interior, some bunks dishevelled by recent packing, marvelling again that she had actually spent the last 12 of her 31 years in this one room, wondering if it could be true that she would never see it again.

Campion, dishevelled, and unbeautifully clad, met her frank enquiring gaze with one of his rare flashes of undisguised honesty.

The grief and agitation of the Lady Edith, as well as the deep interest she felt in a hasty explanation with the Scottish knight, perhaps occasioned her forgetting that her locks were more dishevelled and her person less heedfully covered than was the wont of high-born damsels, in an age which was not, after all, the most prudish or scrupulous period of the ancient time.

His mean, colourless eyes wandered inquiringly over the crowd, as the mad dervishes, half-naked, some with masses of dishevelled hair, some with no hair at all, bleached, haggard, moaning and shrieking, threw themselves to the ground on the matting, while attendants pulled off their slippers and placed them under their heads, which lay face downwards.

She was dishevelled and plainly dressed, but simplicity only emphasised the quality of her garments.

Cheap whores, singly, coupled, shawled, dishevelled, call from lanes, doors, corners.

Upon the car, which was drawn by four richly caparisoned zebus, stood a hideous statue with four arms, the body coloured a dull red, with haggard eyes, dishevelled hair, protruding tongue, and lips tinted with betel.

At these words I saw coming out of the bed-clothes a lovely head, with dishevelled hair, and a blooming, laughing face which, although it was crowned with a man's cap, left no doubt that the captain's friend belonged to that sex without which man would be the most miserable animal on earth.

His face against the stone, the ghotra protecting his flesh, he turned his head to see two bearded, dishevelled youths in paramilitary fatigues striding through the bazaarlike thoroughfare, waving heavy, ugly, black repeating weapons in their hands, kicking out at merchants' stalls and rubbing their heavy boots on the surfaces of the squatting streetsellers' woven rugs.

As he stood there, gazing into the middle distance, an individual of dishevelled aspect sidled up, a vagrant of almost the maximum seediness, from whose midriff there protruded a trayful of a strange welter of collar-studs, shoe-laces, rubber rings, buttonhooks, and dying roosters.

Mr Calver was discovered in the parlour, reclining on a sofa of antiquated and uncomfortable design, a strip of sticking-plaster adorning his brow, his beautifully curled locks sadly dishevelled, a glass in his hand, and a bottle of the King's Head's best cognac standing on the floor beside him.

They snatched up the discarded weapons and turned them on the beaten Dutchmen, herding them forward, forcing them to squat in ranks with their hands clasped behind their heads, dishevelled and forlorn.

An empty bottle of wine lay on the floor, and a Catogan wig, slightly dishevelled.

He reuses yesterday's coffee grounds, dresses in dishevelled chinos and sports jacket, and drives the southern California freeways in a shabby car still scarred by half-finished repairs.