[
UK
/ʌnkˈɛpt/
]
ADJECTIVE
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(especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded
broken (or unkept) promises
broken contracts
How To Use unkept In A Sentence
- They were in a small, unkept dock - they walked along the waterfront, until they reached a set of stairs, leading down, to the water's height.
- I'm a sucker for a library that looks like a library - a little unkept, a little dusty, mildly disorganized and definitely overstuffed.
- These features are lost, however, in what Patterson describes as a ‘bad atmosphere’ with poor lighting and a somewhat unkept environment.
- And should any one in any case be content that his oath shall go unkept on a merely unsubstantial controversy as to HOW it shall be kept?
- I can therefore say goodbye to this particular forum because I know that I will never run out of unkept promises or miles to walk and that I may even continue to sprinkle the journey remaining before sleep with a new idea or two.
- But they had rung her, several times at first, angry at the trail of unkept appointments. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
- So what is to be done about the unkept promises of the new economy?
- She could make out a small, unkept lawn to its side, circled by a broken, wiry fence.
- But what is often felt instead is what we view as the broken confidence, the unkept promise, the lack of support.
- Because they had never traded phone numbers or mailing addresses or even last names, the unkept appointment was assumed by both of them to be the end of the affair.