Dishevelled Definition

adjective

(of a person) With the hair uncombed.

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(by extension) Disorderly or untidy in appearance.

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verb

Simple past tense and past participle of dishevel.

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Origin of Dishevelled

  • From earlier dishevely, from Old French deschevelé (modern French déchevelé and échevelé), from dis- (“dis-”), + chevel (“hair”) (modern French cheveu).

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Dishevelled Sentence Examples

  • His figure was crooked, his limbs shrunken; his hair hung in dishevelled locks over his haggard countenance.

  • His bristly black person, and shagged breast quite open and rarely purified by any ablutions, was wrapped in a foul linen nightgown and his bushy hair dishevelled.

  • His attributes are the trident and the dolphin (sometimes the tunny fish.) As represented in art Poseidon resembles Zeus, but possesses less of his majestic calm, his muscles are more emphasized, and his hair is thicker and somewhat dishevelled.

  • On the day following the image of Adonis was carried down to the shore and cast into the sea by women with dishevelled hair and bared breasts.

  • He depicts her quick changes of colour, her dishevelled hair, her panting breast, her apparent increase of stature as the god draws nigh and fills her with his divine afflatus.

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Words Starting With

DDIDIS

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DEDLED

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