[
UK
/ʌnkˈɛmpt/
]
[ US /ənˈkɛmpt/ ]
[ US /ənˈkɛmpt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
not neatly combed
wild unkempt hair
wild unkempt hair -
not properly maintained or cared for
native vistas and unkempt rambling paths
an unkempt garden
an ukempt appearance
How To Use unkempt In A Sentence
- I looked up into the sparkling eyes of a heavyset man with gray, unkempt hair and a white goatee.
- And then, like a walking, unkempt buzzkill, the campground security showed up.
- Norman took me into his unkempt, barren back garden to show me the only thing which he could boast of - his four fat white rabbits.
- His hair is unkempt and his clothes scruffy; his eyes are red and he seems permanently on the point of tears. Times, Sunday Times
- There he stood before a figure with a long black robe and frizzled, unkempt white hair poking out at odd angles from beneath a black hat.
- There was a gate near the car that led into an unkempt path through the forest. THE EXECUTION
- I used to love trotting out of a morning to potter about the wilderness in my gown and pyjamas, all unshaved and generally unkempt.
- THE Government is to hand out fines for untidy or unkempt gardens. The Sun
- I have the misfortune to live between a blinding, yellow concrete monstrosity on one side and an unkempt, dirty, semi-paved yard on the other.
- Even the tsotsis, the unkempt street ruffians of the 1930s, began to embrace the quest for style in the 1950s.