Desaliñado in english
Unkempt
pronunciation: ənkempt part of speech: adjective
pronunciation: ənkempt part of speech: adjective
In gestures
desaliñado = messy ; scruffy ; bedraggled ; unkempt ; scruff ; straggly ; scraggly ; rumpled ; slipshod ; shambling ; slovenly ; slatternly.
Example: The author discusses current attempts to organize electronic information objects in a world that is messy, volatile and uncontrolled.Example: The article 'Surprise: Scruffy Students Now Don Glad Rags for Class' reports that high school students throughout the country are dressing up these days and that what is chic varies from region to region.Example: This novel's far-fetched but intriguing plot places a rather bedraggled and unimpressive Hitler on Australian soil in 1919.Example: Modern tourists lack a classical training, and most of them are bewildered by such unkempt ruins as those that are found in Rome.Example: Part of the reason he is such a scruff is he took on sponsorship to raise money for charity by agreeing to not have his beard or hair cut for the better part of a year.Example: British comic Russell Brand is preparing to say goodbye to his straggly locks in a bid to boost his movie career.Example: Even a scraggly beard does not hurt the looks of Rob, I can still look at him admiringly.Example: Peter Falk, who played television's rumpled detective Columbo for 30 years in an acting career that included 50 movies and spanned a half century, has died.Example: Nature meant him for a slipshod, shambling Bohemian -- happy, out-at-the-elbows, always in debt, always irresponsible, and always pursued by duns and bailiffs.Example: Nature meant him for a slipshod, shambling Bohemian -- happy, out-at-the-elbows, always in debt, always irresponsible, and always pursued by duns and bailiffs.Example: Teachers have complained about 'slovenly' parents dropping children off at school dressed in their pyjamas.Example: A fiercely energetic drama of Oedipal lust and yearning involving a rebellious farm boy, his tyrannical father, and the father's slatternly new wife.more:
» andar desaliñado = be down at (the) heel .
Example: He might be down at heel and frayed around the edges, but when it comes to having a nose for a mystery, he's the smartest solicitor in Liverpool.» persona desaliñada = sloven ; slattern .
Example: Take care of yourself for, as you will soon find to your cost, a sloven in one thing is a sloven in all things. Example: A woman who from being a slattern becomes overneat, or from being overneat becomes a slattern, is most certainly in love.