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In a move that could easily be out of former UK prime minister Boris Johnson's sartorial playbook, Musk has gone for a hint of dishevelment on a serious and ceremonial day.

From BBC • Jan. 20, 2025

The cast is universally strong, especially Herbers, who, with her warm eyes and her air of wary dishevelment, makes Kristen feel strange and a little dirty, as if she were burying enormous, chaotic emotions.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 4, 2019

There was no glory in nerdy dishevelment, in tweedy absent-mindedness.

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2017

Kim, whose substantial paunch and perennial stubble lent him an air of cavalier dishevelment, occasionally spoke out against his family’s rule — and spoke favorably of openness and globalism — in interviews with Japanese media.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2017

They ran to the stands with their bright red shirts sticking out of their grass-stained pants in glorious dishevelment.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger