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[ UK /ʌnkˈɛmpt/ ]
[ US /ənˈkɛmpt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. not neatly combed
    wild unkempt hair
    wild unkempt hair
  2. 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.
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