fastidious
/fæˈstɪdiəs/
adjectivedescribing someone who is very particular or demanding about their appearance, grooming, or clothing
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1. Our efforts had to be judged by the chairman of the judges of the famously fastidious Porsche Owners' Club of Great Britain.
2. It is even more fragile, fastidious and miniscule than the bacteria that cause syphilis or gonorrhea.
3. In addition, the truly fastidious would find themselves in a difficult position if toilet seat liners weren’t available.
4. You have to be very fastidious about what you put in your tummy.
5. Just being fastidious.
smart
/ˈsmɑɹt/
adjective(of people or clothes) looking neat, tidy, and elegantly fashionable
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1. Women are smart.
2. - Raccoons are smart.
3. Diligence, discipline and persistence will overpower smarts.
4. Your fat is smart.
5. Kids are smart.
spruce
/ˈspɹus/
adjectivesmart, stylish, and well-groomed in appearance
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1. But the spruces put out messages in media of their own invention.
2. - Spruce the kitchen and dining room up a little bit.
3. Sprucing it up?
4. Spruce up your home with this fun and inexpensive hobby.
5. Spruce up plain water with citrus slices or fresh mint.
clean-cut
/klˈiːnkˈʌt/
adjectiveneat and conventional appearance, hairstyle, or behavior
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1. And I don't expect it to make a clean-cut.
2. - It's not clean-cut.
3. Of course, from the military standpoint, that's the clean-cut thing to do now .
4. I kinda like that combination, that clean-cut face combined with the roughness of the tattoos.
5. - This is kind of a clean-cut looking toy
dapper
/ˈdæpɝ/
adjectiveneat, stylish, and well-dressed
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1. However, the dapper hunk didn't play the piano.
2. - You look very dapper.
3. Harry, our dapper drowned boy!
4. You look dapper this morning!
5. I always look dapper
groomed
/ˈɡɹumd/
adjectivewell-cared for, tidy, and well-maintained in appearance or behavior
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1. Is it a nice, groomed trails?
2. The once well-dressed and groomed leader looked disheveled, unshaven and bewildered when he was arrested.
3. Get a nice shave, maybe even with your wedding party, make sure your eyebrows are well groomed and there is no hair coming out of your nose and your ears.
4. It just gives you a well groomed and polished look.
5. Make sure you are well groomed for the event.
trim
/ˈtɹɪm/
adjectiveneat and well-groomed
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1. Trim the end.
2. Trim the end of the pastry bag, here.
3. Trim the wire.
4. Trim your nails and nose hair.
5. Trim excess cuticle skin.
skanky
/skˈæŋki/
adjectivedisheveled, unkempt, or provocative appearance that is perceived as distasteful or inappropriate
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scruffy
/ˈskɹəfi/
adjectivehaving an appearance that is untidy, dirty, or worn out
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1. He looks like a scruffy Ashton Kutcher.
2. From one angle, you'll see two scruffy hillsides by Austin's Colorado river.
3. Sorry, I'm so scruffy this Christmas.
4. Okay you got a little scruffy beard.
5. Okay, you got a little scruffy beard.
shabby
/ˈʃæbi/
adjective(of a person) dressed in worn and old clothes
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1. Not too freaking shabby, hey.
2. This side doesn't look too shabby.
3. It's too shabby.
4. And the drivers weren't too shabby either.
5. Ain't too freaking shabby.
down-at-heel
/daʊnæthiːl/
adjectivehaving a shabby or unkempt appearance
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disheveled
/dɪˈʃɛvəɫd/
adjectivea person's untidy or messy appearance, typically their hair or clothing, as if it has not been properly groomed or cared for
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1. The most disheveled you can see him is where he has taken his jacket off,
2. These lines give a rather disheveled look to the whole garment.
3. Because of their youth, they are less disheveled.
4. Okay so this bathroom is currently looking pretty disheveled.
5. Martha's disheveled shelves aren't background material, so Peter swoops in with some PVC piping, a bed sheet, and binder clips to hack a studio in her living room.
ragged
/ˈɹæɡəd/
adjective(of clothes) shabby, old and in poor condition
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1. Her breath was ragged and she quieted it.
2. The flimsy sheet fell into three ragged pieces.
3. This is the Ragged Chute hydropower plant on the Montreal River in eastern Ontario, Canada.
4. We're going to go down to Ragged Beach.
5. I always draw my strength and my comfort from Ragged Beach.
slovenly
/ˈsɫəvənɫi/
adjectivelacking of cleanliness and neatness, often implying a disregard for personal hygiene or grooming
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1. Christine: That he dresses slovenly when he goes out with me, I don't like that.
2. If you fused those two characters together in a perfect 50/50 alloy, that it would turn into this, like, slovenly, weird, stammering, selfish person.
3. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.
4. A former friend of the young man added that he was slovenly and had terrible personal hygiene.
5. The trail was red now, and the clean stride of the great beast had grown short and slovenly.
windswept
/ˈwɪnˌswɛpt/
adjectivedescribing an appearance that has been affected by the wind, often implying a slightly disheveled yet attractive look
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1. The name means 'a windswept house on a hill', and it is a very good description.
2. Some win-- windswept looks and different stuff like that.
3. And glaciers still carve the windswept terrain.
4. Commercials and movie studios sometimes employ them to create windswept effects.
5. Exploring windswept deserts and tropical Edens never gets old, and there's some excitement in working together to survive sudden storms.
snappy
/ˈsnæpi/
adjectiveneat and stylish
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1. Just normal day to day stuff feels snappy.
2. Performance is pretty snappy.
3. It's snappy.
4. Be snappy.
5. The chocolate is snappy.
well-groomed
/wˈɛlɡɹˈuːmd/
adjectivehaving a neat and tidy appearance, with clean and styled hair, well-manicured nails, and clothing that is clean, ironed, and fits well
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1. They were reasonably well-DRESSED, WELL-GROOMED.