Get to know Unshaven better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like unshaved or mustached.
Unshaven in a sentence
Unshaven meaning
- Not having shaved; not shaven; untrimmed.
- Unkempt.
Synonyms of Unshaven
Using Unshaven
- The main meaning on this page is: Not having shaved; not shaven; untrimmed. | Unkempt.
- Useful related words include: unshaved, mustached, mustachioed, goateed.
- In the example corpus, unshaven often appears in combinations such as: and unshaven, an unshaven, unshaven face.
Context around Unshaven
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 6 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Unshaven
- In this selection, "unshaven" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, dirty, tall, dishevelled, face, man and skantha stand out and add context to how "unshaven" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a tall unshaven man with and as an unshaven unwashed reporter. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "unshaven" sits close to words such as aat, abhorrence and abms, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with unshaven
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He is also unshaven. (4 words)
He was dirty, unshaven and not wearing shoes. (8 words)
He is unshaven with black and grey heavy stubble. (9 words)
The good-looking and talented Tom Hardy, who should be a walk-in for this role, inhabits it half-heartedly as an unshaven, unwashed reporter who botches the one investigation any newsman with half his credentials would know how to approach. (41 words)
Two weeks before Guy was shot Dave Berry, who rented a house where the Guys used to live, recalls a "tall, unshaven man with dark hair" banging on his door looking for Scott, smelling of alcohol and cigarettes. (38 words)
And if Zimmern is the great educator swooping in to save the unshaven, uncultured Minnesotan masses from their own cultural ignorance, he isn’t doing the best job. (28 words)
Example sentences (14)
He is also unshaven.
The man is described as between 25 and 30 years old with short black hair and unshaven.
He had an unshaven face and a small build, and the paint job on his car was faded.
He is described as 5ft 11in tall, with neck-length grey hair and of a slim build and unshaven.
He was dirty, unshaven and not wearing shoes.
Two weeks before Guy was shot Dave Berry, who rented a house where the Guys used to live, recalls a "tall, unshaven man with dark hair" banging on his door looking for Scott, smelling of alcohol and cigarettes.
A pudgy, dishevelled, unshaven Skantha downplayed his relationship with the victim, who just a couple of months earlier was considering renting a room in his new home.
And if Zimmern is the great educator swooping in to save the unshaven, uncultured Minnesotan masses from their own cultural ignorance, he isn’t doing the best job.
He has been described as a South Asian male with a medium build and unshaven face.
He is unshaven with black and grey heavy stubble.
The good-looking and talented Tom Hardy, who should be a walk-in for this role, inhabits it half-heartedly as an unshaven, unwashed reporter who botches the one investigation any newsman with half his credentials would know how to approach.
Frayling, p. 7 Smith, p. 76 Eastwood once again played a mysterious stranger—unshaven, wearing a serape-like vest, and smoking a cigar.
His first role in a sound picture was as the unshaven villain in a low-budget William Boyd Western called The Painted Desert (1931).
However, Gable's unshaven lovemaking with braless Jean Harlow in Red Dust (1932) soon made him MGM's most important male star.
Common combinations with unshaven
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and unshaven 3×
- an unshaven 2×
- unshaven face 2×
- the unshaven 2×