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Unbrushed

adjective

(of hair or clothing) not brushed. "The suit was wrinkled and unbrushed, as if it had been slept in"

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"Unbrushed" Quotes from Famous Books

... excellence of her general information. She had spent a large portion of her life at railway stations, which are, I think, the centre of much wisdom. She and Kew started for the station with mouths burnt by hurried coffee and toast-crumbs still unbrushed on their waistcoats, forty minutes before the train was due. The protests of Kew could be heard almost as far as the station, which was reached by a ...

— This Is the End • Stella Benson

... the room with perfume, and gracefully flirting the feather-fan, I lost all confidence in my powers as a portrait-painter immediately. The brightest colors in my box looked dowdy and dim, and I myself felt like an unwashed, unbrushed, unpresentable sloven. ...

— After Dark • Wilkie Collins

... rest. Your mother would certainly have worried if you had been engaged to the Archangel Michael (who, indeed, is bearing his disappointment very well): how much more when you are engaged to an aimless, tactless, reckless, unbrushed, strange-hatted, opinionated scarecrow who has suddenly walked into the vacant place. I could have prophesied her unrest: wait and she will calm down all right, dear. God comfort her: I dare not. . ...

— Gilbert Keith Chesterton • Maisie Ward

Words linked to "Unbrushed" : ungroomed