bald
/ˈbɔɫd/
adjective
having little or no hair on the head
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1The male giraffes are bald on top.
2My dad was bald.
3She had bald tires.
4Our camera guy is sometimes bald.
5Unlike most primates, bald uakaris have very short tails and long coats.
balding
/ˈbɔɫdɪŋ/
adjective
beginning to lose hair and become bald
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1- I'm a balding.
2- Let's do that one, the balding.
3This is by far the most common type of balding and accounts for approximately 90% of all male cases.
4This, in turn, helps to prevent balding.
5This includes deepening of the voice, acne, increase in muscle mass and balding.
shaggy
/ˈʃæɡi/
adjective
(of hair or fur) long, untidy and thick
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1Arthur’s hair grows shaggy.
2You hear that, Shaggy?
3So the final mix is a little bit shaggy.
4Shaggy coats fleck off the damp.
5This is Shaggy.
shoulder-length
/ʃˈoʊldɚlˈɛŋθ/
adjective
(of hair) long in a way that reaches down the shoulders
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1You can also hide your double chin with some fashion tricks, like using V cleavages and keeping your hair at shoulder-length.
2If you have never done a push-up before, start by going on your hands and knees, with your hands shoulder-length apart.
3Your palms should be a shoulder-length apart.
4Keep those curls If you have curly hair, Tippi Shorter, celebrity hairstylist and co-founder of MANE Society, advised a rounded shoulder-length cut when speaking to Allure.
5In the movie, it was shoulder-length and straight rather than spiky.
sleek
/ˈsɫik/
adjective
having a smooth or shiny surface that looks polished
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1The campaign site looked pretty sleek and professionally-designed.
2Honeybees are more sleek.
3Kate's belt is super sleek with just a few pouches on her left side.
4This thing is pretty sleek.
5The design of it is so so sleek.
spiky
/ˈspaɪki/
adjective
(of hair) sticking upward on the top of the head
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1Their prices are very spiky.
2And the plant is spiky.
3Every variety of dragonfruit, for the most part, is very spiky.
4This creepy, spiky organism is found in shallow waters of the Pacific Ocean.
5Looks spiky.
bristly
/bɹˈɪstli/
adjective
Having stiff, short, and coarse hairs or bristles growing closely together
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1Toothed whales like orcas, porpoises, and sperm whales eat everything from fish to squid to seals, while baleen whales use their bristly namesake to filter small animals like krill, plankton, and even fish from huge gulps of water.
2He's ruddy, he's pitted, he's bristly.
3With its, like, and it would be all like, bristly - In that bush. - and its tail would be huge.
4The sweat-streaked, bristly face bent down by him and Robert Jordan smelt the full smell of Pablo.
5Use short, bristly carpet, such as Berber.
bushy
/ˈbʊʃi/
adjective
(of hair) growing thickly in a way that looks like a bush
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1We're bushy!
2His hair was pretty bushy at the time.
3We got Bushy, TheLover, and 140AM.
4See ya later, bushy brows!
5[ MUSIC ] Bushy perennials that set flowers at the tops of tall stems.
disheveled
/dɪˈʃɛvəɫd/
adjective
a 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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1The most disheveled you can see him is where he has taken his jacket off,
2These lines give a rather disheveled look to the whole garment.
3Because of their youth, they are less disheveled.
4Okay so this bathroom is currently looking pretty disheveled.
5Martha'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.
flyaway
/flˈaɪəwˌeɪ/
adjective
(of hair) thin and soft in a way that is hard to keep tidy
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1Just like with the European races the majority of flyaway races occur with two weeks between them but from time to time races are scheduled on back to back weekends thousands of miles apart.
2And finally, flyaway cards are smaller clumps of hair that fly away from the head, to break up the silhouette.
3This way, she doesn't have to worry about any stray flyaways or loose strands.
4And, of course, depending on your own personal taste, a flyaway collar may not be so much problematic as a unique style statement.
5Even back then, I'd get crazy curls and flyaways.
to frizz
/ˈfɹɪz/
verb
(of hair) to become or cause to become tightly curled
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1But now I want regular frizz.
2Now you're regular frizz.
3but now I want regular Frizz.
4Now you're regular Frizz.
5- It eliminates your frizz, and it also seals your split-ends.
frizzy
/fɹˈɪzi/
adjective
(of hair) having a lot of small tight curls that are neither smooth nor shiny
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1It also does get frizzy up at the top.
2And it's frizzy.
3- No, it's actually really frizzy.
4So it's a little bit dry, it's a little bit frizzy.
5It got frizzy during the night.
fuzzy
/ˈfəzi/
adjective
covered with fine short hair or fibers
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1Everything's fuzzy!
2It's fuzzy.
3Now the math on Anker's website is really fuzzy.
4So here is this picture again, this fuzzy blob.
5I like fuzzy things.
hairless
/ˈhɛɹɫəs/
adjective
without hair; bald
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1It's chipless, not hairless.
2Is it a hairless cat?
3It's a freakin' hairless cat?
4- That is one hairless elbow.
5This is a hairless mustache.
lank
/ˈɫæŋk/
adjective
(of hair) long, thin and straight
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1At the top of 4, as the kid moves from Tennessee down to New Orleans, and then out to the West, he moves through the South: He sees blacks in the fields lank and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton, a shadowed agony in the garden.
2He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.
3Ichabod's flimsy garments fluttered in the air, as he stretched his long lank body away over his horse's head, in the eagerness of his flight.
4And thou art long, and lank, and brown, As is the ribbed sea-sand.
5His head was sunk upon his breast, and he looked from my point of view like a strange, lank bird, with dull gray plumage and a black top-knot.
luxuriant
/ɫəɡˈʒɝiənt/
adjective
(of hair) growing well and being healthy
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1The big orchestra has led to longer symphonies and the sound obviously is very luxuriant, very opulent.
2The males have luxuriant golden locks and deep red markings on their chests.
3In this region where King Christophe seems still to reign, the forests are luxuriant and leafy and full of life.
4In this region where King Christophe seems still to reign, the forests are luxuriant and leafy and full of life.
5Man, this is a luxuriant dish.
matted
/mˈæɾᵻd/
adjective
(of hair or fur) twisted and stuck into a dirty mass
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1It's matted glass and it's got a nice click.
2"Diseased, matted rats," (laughs) Said no one in Europe in the 1300's.
3No, I'm saying, if I need something, sometimes my hair gets so matted up and so knotty that she's gotta like, get in there and do things.
4These patches of grassland consist of matted vegetation and soil that’ve been thickened into a solid form.
5Its face is surrounded by shaggy, matted dark hair.
nappy
/nˈæpi/
adjective
having tight curls or kinks in hair
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1None, light bulbs don't wear nappies.
2We have baby nappy bags for the big huge smelly poos.
3I've packed three nappies.
4So the first thing is nappies.
5Here they're Nappies.
scraggly
/ˈskɹæɡɫi/
adjective
uneven, unkempt, or ragged in appearance
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1They’re seeds of this scraggly shrub.
2It's gonna be this scraggly dough at first.
3The writing was scraggly, due to the vibration of the motors.
4His gray and dark brown beard is significantly longer and scraggly compared to the images of him in the photo with hiker Obsidian.
5You can identify them by their leggings and tunics and scraggly hair and beards, here.
straight
/ˈstɹeɪt/
adjective
(of hair) not curly or wavy
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1Keep your back straight
2So keeping the arms straight.
3Standing leg straight.
4Keep my back straight.
5Stretch the arm straight.
thick
/ˈθɪk/
adjective
(of hair or fur) grown near together in large numbers or amounts
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1Shrek's neck is thick.
2The cartilage on this is thicker. -
3Cake are thick.
4This boy is thick.
5This person knows thick.
tidy
/ˈtaɪdi/
adjective
well-groomed, neat, and styled in an organized and deliberate manner
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1Tidy your room!
2Tidy your room.
3Tidy your room.
4Tidy your room.
5Tidy your room.
tousled
/tˈaʊsəld/
adjective
looking untidy in a pleasant way

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unkempt
/ənˈkɛmpt/
adjective
untidy and not groomed
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1Vernon’s natural charisma, his unkempt looks, the down to earth style and his deep scriptural knowledge were a potent mix.
2Because it looked somewhat unkempt to me.
3He emerged after the time jump sporting a shaggy beard, unkempt hair that grew to his shoulders, and a protruding belly courtesy of barrels of beer and newfound love for Cheez Whiz.
4Unkempt hair, torn clothes, and they had to cover the lower part of their face.
5Even long unkempt nails turn women off.
wavy
/ˈweɪvi/
adjective
(of hair) having a slight curl or wave to it, creating a soft and gentle appearance
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1It was wavy.
2Do the kids still say wavy?
3And a blowup of that again shows us the wavy lines, the descent of the Holy Spirit, the writing on the wax tablet.
4The sides of the bowl will be wavy.
5- Is it wavy?
crinkly
/kɹˈɪŋkli/
adjective
(of hair) being rough and curly
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1And on the edges, brown spots, like a crinkly, damaged leaf.
2The pancetta itself, it starts getting crinkly and curls up.
3they're not really the same size, but this is so crinkly.
4They are really, really crinkly noise.
5- It's crinkly.
curly
/ˈkɝɫi/
adjective
(of hair) having a lot of curls or waves
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1Her hair is curly.
2My hair’s still curly!
3My name is Curly.
4My name is Curly.
5Curly wins.
windblown
/wˈɪndbloʊn/
adjective
appearing untidy because of the wind
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1The windblown hair of a woman holding a loaf of bread.
2The windblown snow now signaled the winds of change as the workers' revolution took control of the ports.
3Windblown sands and dust carve the stone into eerie goblin silhouettes.
4Another commented on other aspects of her look, writing, "Everyone's talking about Ella Emhoff's sparkly coat but can I just say how nice it is to see Jewish curls in their natural if slightly windblown state in a town of near-universal blow-drying and hair ironing?"
wiry
/ˈwɪɹi/
adjective
(of hair) not flexible and stiff like a wire
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1They have this really wiry fur, and it does get greasy.
2These guys are wiry.
3It's a very wiry coat.
4It is situated right here next to the inlayed wiry cloth mesh.
5A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin.
skinhead
/ˈskɪnˌhɛd/
noun
someone whose head is closely shaved
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1The market for this new shoe technology wasn't the punks or skinheads you might associate with the history of these shoes, but older women in need of comfortable and practical footwear.
2The boot was quickly adopted by any countercultural movement that appeared, and they became a mainstay in glam, punk, skinhead, ska, and goth style, among many others.
3In America there are plenty of quote, unquote skinhead groups who think that beating up one immigrant is going to advance the cause, and is going to help things.
4And so a skinhead could show up to a show looking a lot like a skinhead, not hiding, and know that there is going to be some response.
5Some guy got up, this sort of rightwing guy, and there was protesting against Paxton's presence by skinheads.
downy
/ˈdaʊni/
adjective
covered with soft and fine feathers or hair
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1Its downy coat was apparently reddish brown over most of its body.
2But then basil also suffers quite heavily from downy mildew, a different form of mildew.
3So the downy mildew resistance is pretty high in this one.
4Luckily, there's no need to despair - Downy is the same fabric softener, just with a different name!
5Fingernails and downy hair on the body continue to make their appearance.
uncombed
/ʌnkˈoʊmd/
adjective
(of hair) not brushed or combed and therefore untidy
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1They would appear disheveled, in torn clothes, and unpinned and uncombed hair.
2I can eat cereal out of bowl, but the bowl becomes a hat when I use it to cover my uncombed hair.
3"The white girl hippy look is counter-cultural "and political, unwashed, uncombed.
stringy
/ˈstɹɪŋi/
adjective
(of hair) consisting of long and thin strands
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1- Stringy cotton candy.
2- It's so stringy.
3It's pretty stringy.
4This dude is stringy!
5No, it's turning stringy.
fuzz
/ˈfəz/
noun
a mass of curled hair or fibers
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1they use dandelion fuzz.
2So I can add Fuzz pedal right there.
3- More fuzz, you found more fuzz?
4- More fuzz, you found more fuzz?
5- You have fuzz.
glossy
/ˈɡɫɔsi/
adjective
being shiny and smooth in a pleasant way
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1My lips is glossy!
2That glossy screen looks nice.
3It's insanely glossy!
4I did have a problem with the older phones glossy keyboard coating though
5Maybe because that one had a glossy surface
greasy
/ˈɡɹisi/
adjective
(of hair or skin) producing a lot of oil by nature
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1Fritos are greasy.
2- Fritos are greasy.
3Your default mode is greasy.
4And things get greasy.
5Then your fingers get greasy.
silky
/ˈsɪɫki/
adjective
(of hair) smooth and flowing, like the texture of silk
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1Mmm. - Oh, the noodles are so silky.
2Silky smooth red wine sauce.
3My coat is so silky.
4My coat is so silky.
5Your hair feels soft, silky.
shiny
/ˈʃaɪni/
adjective
bright and smooth in a way that reflects light
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1The tin foil is very shiny!
2The other one was already kind of shiny.
3The hair is just so shiny.
4Lego figures are shiny
5Shiny strands imply good health and hygiene.
thin
/ˈθɪn/
adjective
lacking thickness or volume
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1The coffers are thin.
2The margin is thin.
3Other changes are thinning the ranks of securities analysts.
4The culture of tomato sauce was thin.
5Our blood is thin.
frizz
/ˈfɹɪz/
noun
the condition of having a tightly curled hair
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1But now I want regular frizz.
2Now you're regular frizz.
3but now I want regular Frizz.
4Now you're regular Frizz.
5- It eliminates your frizz, and it also seals your split-ends.
shock-headed
/ʃˈɑːkhˈɛdᵻd/
adjective
having a bushy thick mass of hair which is unkempt

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