di·shev·elled in AM, use disheveled If you describe someone's hair, clothes, or appearance as dishevelled, you mean that it is very untidy. She arrived flushed and dishevelled. if someone's appearance or their clothes, hair etc is dishevelled, they look very untidy (deschevelé, from chevel )
in disarray; extremely disorderly; "her clothing was disheveled"; "powder-smeared and frowzled"; "a rumpled unmade bed"; "a bed with tousled sheets"; "his brown hair was tousled, thick, and curly"- Al Spiers