Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of dishevelledness.
The former UK prime minister and Donald Trump were pictured together at the RNC on Tuesday, with Johnson’s trademark disheveledness standing in stark contrast to Trump’s polished veneers and white ear bandage.
2024 July 19, Mike Bedigan, “Why did some of the UK’s worst political rejects like Johnson and Truss spend the week parading about the RNC?”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Jul 20242 more examples
Fabrics draped and bunched asymetrically at the hems of dresses and ruched and puckered at the plackets of button-front suit-like cropped jackets, giving the whole collection an air of delightful disheveledness; […]
2019 June 6, Adam Tschorn, “Kanye West-backed label Maisie Wilen debuts in downtown L.A.”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2019It was the ’70s, so a certain bit of disheveledness was to be expected, although the figure standing in front of new Virginia Tech coach Jimmy Sharpe still made him shake his head. There, in all his unkempt glory, stood Bruce Arians, the Gobblers’ backup quarterback for years.
2021 February 5, Andy Bitter, “Bruce Arians’ Virginia Tech beginnings: Big hair, bartending and the wishbone”, in The Athletic, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Oct 2025
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disheveledness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disheveledness
“disheveledness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disheveledness. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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