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- adjective Not
combed
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- adjective (of hair) not combed
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hair wet and uncombed, skin smelling of strawberry body wash, that half smile she sometimes had when she looked at me.
Miracles, Inc. T.J. Forrester 2011
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When the ship pulled up to the Battery in Lower Manhattan on the afternoon of April 2, Einstein was standing on the deck, wearing a black felt hat that concealed some but not all of his now-graying profusion of uncombed hair.
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When I look back at his angry face with its long uncombed hair and beard, I think of a lion.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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Toby stared at me a moment and then laughed a thick laugh, like uncombed wool.
Bone Hinge 2010
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Annabel Scholey is too pleasing as Lady Anne: when she loses her temper, she doesn't so much curse as mellifluously express herself, but Gemma Jones's Queen Margaret is impressive: a glowering, dogged presence who hovers as a constant reproach in her jumble-sale coat and uncombed hair.
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In his flip-flops, his torn jeans, his faded T-shirt and his uncombed hair, he was in full command.
The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011
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His hair was greasy and uncombed and he wore a wrinkled and soiled-looking seersucker suit the pants of which were torn from below his left knee to his hip.
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He wore a two-day stubble and his hair was uncombed.
The Captain's Hat 2009
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His hair was greasy and uncombed and he wore a wrinkled and soiled-looking seersucker suit the pants of which were torn from below his left knee to his hip.
Lance Mannion: 2010
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Annabel Scholey is too pleasing as Lady Anne: when she loses her temper, she doesn't so much curse as mellifluously express herself, but Gemma Jones's Queen Margaret is impressive: a glowering, dogged presence who hovers as a constant reproach in her jumble-sale coat and uncombed hair.
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