dishevelled

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
dishevelled /dɪˈʃɛv(ə)ld/ (US disheveled)

▶adjective (of a person's hair, clothes, or appearance) untidy.

– derivatives
dishevel verb (dishevels, dishevelling, dishevelled; US dishevels, disheveling, disheveled),
dishevelment noun.

– origin ME (orig. in the sense ‘having the hair uncovered’): from obs. dishevely, from OFr. deschevele, past part. of descheveler (based on chevel ‘hair’, from L. capillus).

'dishevelled' also found in these Oxford entries:

bedraggled - rumple - unkempt

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