Meanings
comparative more undergroomed · superlative most undergroomed
- Inadequately groomed.
I could barely walk, had lost almost forty pounds, and was undernourished and undergroomed.
2012, Paul V. Stutzman, Hiking Through, page 1621 more example
[…]an idle extravagance which was mistaken for elegant luxury — tumble-down old hackney-coaches, such as had not been seen north of the Potomac for half a century, harness never cleaned, undergroomed horses[…]
1954, Sir William Howard Russell, Fletcher Pratt, My Civil War diary, page 20
Origin
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