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"Messy-looking"2 answers
mussy5 lettersunkempt7 letters
Filled answer is this word (UNKEMPT).
Definitions
not properly maintained or cared for
Word origin
From earlier unkembed, unkemmed, from Middle English unkempt (“uncombed”), equivalent to un- + kempt. Compare Old Norse úkembdr (uncombed; unkempt"; whence Icelandic ókembdur), German ungekämmt (“unkempt”), Dutch ongekamd. More at kemb.
Used in a sentence
“He was a queer shoot, again, in his unkempt longish hair and slovenly clothes, a sort of very vulgar down-at-heel American in appearance.”
“Men on cycles, lean-faced, unkempt, scorched along every country lane, shouting of unhoped deliverance, shouting to gaunt, staring figures of despair.”
“Now, upon his whole person, from the crown of his unkempt head down to his broken, dusty boots, there yet clung that air of jaunty, devil-may-care rakishness.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Messy-looking”7 letters
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