He was unwashed and uncombed with his clothes half buttoned. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
"Sir Robin Callard thinks you're an uncombed brute.". From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Sword]
Her hair is uncombed, and she is chewing bubble gum. From Wordnik.com. [Madonna in Wonderland] Reference
The hirsute and uncombed genius of the street had vanished. From Wordnik.com. [Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference
His hair, too, was uncombed, and his shirt open at the neck. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Headless Corpse]
She came upon Lorie standing in the hall, her hair uncombed. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
Her short-cropped, sunlit hair would be uncovered and uncombed. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Splendid Suns]
HEMMER: So then take us forward to the PJs and the uncombed hair. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2005] Reference
Her hair uncombed, and prematurely grey, straggled out into the wind. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
Misha was strange, his mop of hair uncombed, his clothes looked slept in. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
A boy is lolling on the green grass in front of a cottage door -- an uncombed. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873] Reference
All he could remember was a spotty face, uncombed hair and a long, lanky body. From Wordnik.com. [War Game]
"Yes after washing it in the sink and blow drying it, but it is uncombed now.". From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
She appraised his rumpled pajama bottoms and uncombed hair and grinned impishly. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat Who Came To Breakfast]
Her hair, long and naturally curly, hung about her shoulders, wild and uncombed. From Wordnik.com. [A Man Alone]
He had two days 'growth of greying stubble on his chin, and his hair was uncombed. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
Then she herself sat down, and with her hands gathered up the locks still uncombed. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
We were a fearful team; absolutely filthy, uncombed, unwashed, unshaven, and with the. From Wordnik.com. [The Escape of a Princess Pat Being the full account of the capture and fifteen months' imprisonment of Corporal Edwards, of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, and his final escape from Germany into Holland] Reference
Leaving her hair uncombed, she ran her hand over a dusty cornice and smeared her face. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
They unlaced her, and even uncombed her hair, and washed her with water and with wine. From Wordnik.com. [Favorite Fairy Tales] Reference
Inside was a bearish man with a stubbled chin and tangle of uncombed black-and-gray hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Coffin Dancer]
James Murphy is portly and uncombed, 37 years old, and drives a 1991 Volvo station wagon. From Wordnik.com. [Saturday Night Soundsystem] Reference
A wit's wig has the privilege of being uncombed in the very play-house, or in the presence. From Wordnik.com. [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference
He was unshaven, his reddish beard bright on his skin; his long hair floated snarled and uncombed. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Upon the Deep]
A little boy with bright eyes and a stock of uncombed black hair was also crouching over the fire. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians] Reference
He was still wearing the same ratty robe he'd worn in the carnival, his hair was still as uncombed. From Wordnik.com. [Charley de Milo] Reference
Paul squared his shoulders, as befitted a hero, and tousled a couple of uncombed heads as they walked. From Wordnik.com. [Slingshot] Reference
His uncombed hair was littered with straw and bits of corn-blades from the fodder on which he had lain. From Wordnik.com. [How Janice Day Won] Reference
He smiled, but with an air of embarrassment; and leaving the tinsel upon his uncombed head, pointed to the wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
Their dress is often untidy, their hair uncombed, they are careless about bathing, and their teeth are neglected. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
Excited beyond measure, she rushed from the room, her long hair uncombed and flying, and ran out into the courtyard. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
His dress was frequently neglected and disordered, and he even sometimes appeared with his hair uncombed, and his face unshaved. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
She walked, dragging a fingernail along the wall, down the hallway, then back, down the steps, then up, her face unwashed, hair uncombed. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Splendid Suns]
She was out the door in two minutes flat, her hair still ratty and uncombed, her clothes hastily donned, her shoes pulled on without socks. From Wordnik.com. [Annie, Get Your Guy & Messing Around With Max]
The stuff she thought would be difficult, such as facing four strangers in her bed with morning breath and uncombed hair, wasn't that hard. From Wordnik.com. [When 'Chains Of Love' Become A Chain Of Fools] Reference
His hands are small and white; his hair, luxurious and curling naturally, is uncombed; his features are handsome, but bruised and unwashed. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
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