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- a slim, spruce man in a tailor-made business suit
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- disheveled
- (or dishevelled),
- frowsy
- (or frowzy),
- sloppy,
- slovenly,
- unkempt
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“Spruce.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/spruce. Accessed 27 January 2020.
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