What does undergroomed mean?
Undergroomed means Inadequately groomed..
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Inadequately groomed..
[…]an idle extravagance which was mistaken for elegant luxury — tumble-down old hackney-coaches, such as had not been seen north of the Potomac for half a century, harness never cleaned, undergroomed horses[…]
I could barely walk, had lost almost forty pounds, and was undernourished and undergroomed.
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Undergroomed means Inadequately groomed..
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[…]an idle extravagance which was mistaken for elegant luxury — tumble-down old hackney-coaches, such as had not been seen north of the Potomac for half a century, harness never cleaned, undergroomed horses[…]
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