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Examples
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Without him, the workplace would still be full of untidy-looking blokes in unsuitable double-breasted, roomy suits thank you, Giorgio Armani and "American Gigolo".
Menswear's Formal Acceptance Tina Gaudoin 2011
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Speaking of the compost, this is the one really untidy-looking area of the garden.
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Speaking of the compost, this is the one really untidy-looking area of the garden.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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It was an untidy-looking, rickety place, small and desolate, with a pretension about it of the lowest order, a pretension that was evidently ashamed of itself.
He Knew He Was Right 2004
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Harry glimpsed an untidy-looking corridor, with various posters of Quidditch teams tacked lopsidedly on the walls.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003
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The bravo had not bothered to clean the whiskers from his face for several days, and there was untidy-looking gray stubble, like fur, under his nose and on his cheeks and chin.
The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Robert Shea 1963
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A black, dishevelled-looking steamer came bearing down on me from the east and passed me within a hundred yards; she was a collier, and as she passed on her way an untidy-looking gentleman in a bowler hat waved a carrot at me in friendly salutation from the door of one of her deck-houses.
Marazan Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951
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He was a small untidy-looking man with a dirty face and a red scar streaking his left cheek.
Starman's Quest Robert Silverberg
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Leaning over the railing of the top landing was an untidy-looking woman in a brown skirt and half-fastened blouse.
Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Marguerite Bryant
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She was a fluffy, rather untidy-looking girl, with a big mouth, a large nose and rather uneven teeth that stuck out a little and made her look rabbity.
In the Fifth at Malory Towers Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1950
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