unbrushed s (of hair or clothing) not brushed snarled unbrushed hair the suit was wrinkled and unbrushed, as if it had been slept in Usage(s) The door is opened by a butler (Boris Karloff) whose hair is unbrushed but whose face looks as though he had combed it with a threshing machine. Smith Wildman Brookhart, chunky, unbrushed, of Iowa, who loudly supported Herbert Hoover in 1928 only to denounce him just as loudly in 1929. In this one it is a ferocious mannikin with unbrushed hair, a flat, angry voice and a perpetual frown.