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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
well-groomed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A well-groomed young couple sat at the table next to ours.
▪ Ambassadors' wives are expected to look fashionable and well-groomed.
▪ She's marrying a well-groomed successful businessman named Paul.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And 130 miles of well-groomed bicycle paths link all areas of the city.
▪ Below us the landscape shone in great brown-and-white patterns like the coat of a well-groomed piebald horse.
▪ He had turned from a beer-bellied, ranting bear into a well-groomed, grumbling sheepdog.
▪ He was a tall, well-groomed man in youthful middle age.
▪ Neat well-groomed hair cut in a style that suits the face and personality is much more pleasing.
▪ She was as well-groomed as ever, but her expression was tired and worn.
▪ Their well-groomed coats gleam like a couple of sleek self-conscious thoroughbreds.
▪ Then they show an equally well-groomed man or woman in a Postal Service cap pointing out how much cheaper Priority Mail is.
Wiktionary
well-groomed

a. 1 (context of a person English) neat and well-dressed 2 neat and tidy alt. 1 (context of a person English) neat and well-dressed 2 neat and tidy

Usage examples of "well-groomed".

With his short, well-groomed black hair, clean-shaven hawklike features that had set many of the women of the court atwitter, quick mind, and a bearing more princely than any prince in the Alliance, it was not at all surprising that everyone involved in the Alterac situation had taken to him, Genn Greymane included.

Factor by Sarah Eltantawi of the objective, nonpartisan, well-groomed Muslim Public Affairs Council.

Finally, the doctor I had spoken to appeared and we met face-to-face: he was the picture of a smart young oncologist, a well-groomed man with clipped manners and the lean physique of a runner beneath his lab coat.

The plumeria smelled like heaven, and a well-groomed queen palm shaded one side.

Divine Virgin, the Queen of Field and Grove, and presented musical masques, harvest fruits and their well-groomed children to her.

Like the well-groomed Marie-Félice but more striking, the vixen was booted, gloved and harnessed over the thorax, the areoles sheathed with the usual barbed cones.

There were only two buildings on the street that did not match the well-groomed exteriors: one was an autobody shop in the middle of the block, a rambling frame building badly in need of paint and surrounded by weeds and skeletons of cars rusting in the yard.

He thought of Ann on Riverside Drive, crisp and well-groomed in her blondness.

Volo concurred half-heartedly, occasionally fingering his well-groomed beard with the hand that he had free from tending the traveler's pack that bounced as he strode.

A man who had to be a Certified Public Accountant on my left -- a big self-contained man in a decent suit and well-groomed beard.

The next morning, when I was well-groomed, Polly and Dolly came into the yard to see me and make friends.

Laurie Ravenel, South Carolina girl, victim of one of those fancy New England colleges where they'd pruned her accent, straightened her hair, and filled her head with so much useless drivel that she had graduated a well-groomed zombie—poised, fashionable, and neurotic.