The Only Use of
disheveled
in
The Great Gatsby
- We went up-stairs, through period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk and vivid with new flowers, through dressing-rooms and poolrooms, and bathrooms with sunken baths — intruding into one chamber where a dishevelled man in pajamas was doing liver exercises on the floor.†
p. 91.3dishevelled = disordered (messy or not tidy)unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use disheveled.
Definition:
messy (untidy or disordered) -- especially of a person's clothes and hair