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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unshaven
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unshaven chin (=with short hairs on because a man has not shaved)
▪ His combed hair looked oddly neat against his unshaven chin.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
face
▪ Now he was overweight with a bloated, unshaven face and his unwashed brown hair fell untidily on to his hunched shoulders.
▪ In her mind his smelly overalls and unshaven face had something to do with what she was about to see.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ An unshaven old man in a stained jacket comes to a stop beside us.
▪ And the musician himself was as seedy as his surroundings - unshaven and obviously drinking too much.
▪ He is about 22 years old and has an unshaven look, they told police.
▪ He looked unshaven and his eyes were bloodshot.
▪ He was unshaven and, perhaps by contrast, his eyes seemed a brighter blue than Lorton remembered.
▪ In her mind his smelly overalls and unshaven face had something to do with what she was about to see.
▪ Rafferty appeared to have been routed out of bed; he was unshaven and squinted as if the light hurt his eyes.
▪ They are unshaven, there is no barber.
Wiktionary
unshaven

a. 1 not having shaved; not shaven; untrimmed. 2 (context figurative English) unkempt

WordNet
unshaven

adj. not shaved [syn: unshaved] [ant: shaven]

Usage examples of "unshaven".

Unshaven and unwashed for several days, he exuded maleness like nothing she had seen or smelled since those sailors aboard the Wotan, and that, after all, had been at sea.

Gould lay in buttonless pajamas on a tousled bed beneath a punkah that had ceased to swing, unshaven, staring at the two intruders with eyes whose pupils were reduced to pin-points, conveying only mirage to the poisoned brain behind.

Closing her eyes, Darcie tried to push aside the image of Steppy, unshaven, unwashed, stinking of liquor and misery.

I have a hazy recollection of a rumpled and unshaven Colonel Stiet striding up and down past our beds, loudly denouncing us as perverts and saying we would all be dishonorably discharged for having unnatural relations.

Even when unshaven and unperfumed, he had a mysterious source of power that seemed to be able to awe most any man.

Malay witnesses trembling from head to foot, and then the wretch from the cage was brought in looking hardly human, as, from under his shaggy, unshaven hair and unplaited pigtail which hung over his chest, he cast furtive, frightened glances at the array before him.

Oz sat on a freshly painted bench in Hammersmith Park, unshaven, unshowered, his mind more than a little numb.

Roman spring night for almost a mile until they reached a chaotic bus depot honking with horns, blazing with red and yellow lights and echoing with the snarling vituperations of unshaven bus drivers pouring loathsome, hair-raising curses out at each other, at their passengers and at the strolling, unconcerned knots of pedestrians clogging their paths, who ignored them until they were bumped by the buses and began shouting curses back.

Philippine roads, columns of unshaven, ragged, bowed Americans march to captivity from Bataan under the guns of scowling yellow dwarfs.

Brennan brushed past a couple of bemedalled attaches, jacket flapping, unshaven, certain that only moments separated him from security intervention.

She saw the same ruin that the bedroom had become as Jacky did, but instead of a bogan gripping her friend, all she saw was a smelly old wino, gap-toothed and unshaven, with bloodshot eyes, baggy trousers, and a white shirt so dirty it was a yellow-brown.

The invaders--unwashed, unshaven, red-eyed--wore blue coveralls with golden cogwheel patches.

Unbathed, unshaven, heartily in need of mulled wine to cut the inhospitable northcoast chill, Lord Diegan drummed his gloved fingers on the hilts of his weapons and allowed that he had not.

The face, free from tattooing, and the unshaven crown, were peculiarities I had never before remarked in any part of the island, end I had always heard that the contrary were considered the indispensable distinction of a Marquesan warrior.

My father there -- that portly unshaven gent with his thinning hair flying up and his front false tooth out, wearing a food-stained shirt and, at midafternoon, pajama bottoms, with a frayed belt cinched over his potbelly to bolster the elastic waistband.