Thesaurus / unkempt
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More men are asking how they can donate their wild, unkempt hair once they can finally get haircuts, Chimera said.
OUR LONG PANDEMIC HAIR IS FINALLY GETTING CUT — AND HAIR DONATION CHARITIES ARE OVERWHELMEDASHLEY FETTERSAPRIL 22, 2021WASHINGTON POSTHalf-naked crew members jammed themselves into lifeboats and rowed away … We were close enough to see their unkempt beards and the tattoos on their arms.
WRECKAGE OF LONG-LOST WW II SHIP, SUNKEN WITH ITS NATIVE AMERICAN SKIPPER AND HALF ITS CREW, IDENTIFIEDMICHAEL RUANEAPRIL 2, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThese unkempt-looking Father Times and Methuselahs prowl about the staircases of the different ateliers daily.
THE REAL LATIN QUARTERF. BERKELEY SMITHGeorge jerked his peaked cap from his head, revealing a tangle of unkempt red hair.
DOPESAX ROHMERThey were resting on their cumbrous belongings, strange groups, unkempt and half dressed.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONThey were standing now in front of a tall, gloomy house, unkempt, with broken gate—a large but miserable-looking abode.
THE DOUBLE FOURE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIMAnd at the trail's end the unkempt, ribald crew swarmed their dark and dirty camp as a band of pirates a galleon.
BLAZED TRAIL STORIESSTEWART EDWARD WHITEAt first I had been rather struck by his unkempt look, and it made my reaction all the stronger.
THE NEW MACHIAVELLIHERBERT GEORGE WELLSHe was an emaciated, unkempt man, whose movements were in strange contrast with his appearance.
A LITTLE UNION SCOUTJOEL CHANDLER HARRISIt might be supposed that so hairy an animal as the yak would become dirty and unkempt.
MOUNT EVEREST THE RECONNAISSANCE, 1921CHARLES KENNETH HOWARD-BURYSYNONYM OF THE DAY
JUNE 17, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO UNKEMPT
- ailing
- beat up
- bedraggled
- crummy
- decaying
- decrepit
- dingy
- dog-eared
- down-at-the-heel
- drooping
- droopy
- faded
- flagging
- frowzy
- gone to seed
- grubby
- in a bad way
- mangy
- messy
- neglected
- old
- overgrown
- poor
- poorly
- ragged
- ratty
- sagging
- scruffy
- shabby
- sickly
- sleazy
- slovenly
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- threadbare
- tired
- torn
- unkempt
- untidy
- unwell
- used up
- wilted
- wilting
- worn
- ailing
- beat up
- bedraggled
- crummy
- decaying
- decrepit
- dingy
- dog-eared
- down-at-the-heel
- drooping
- droopy
- faded
- flagging
- frowzy
- gone to seed
- grubby
- in a bad way
- mangy
- messy
- neglected
- old
- overgrown
- poor
- poorly
- ragged
- ratty
- sagging
- scruffy
- shabby
- sickly
- sleazy
- slovenly
- squalid
- tacky
- tattered
- threadbare
- tired
- torn
- unkempt
- untidy
- unwell
- used up
- wilted
- wilting
- worn
- abominable
- base
- broken-down
- decayed
- despicable
- dingy
- dirty
- disgusting
- disheveled
- fetid
- filthy
- foul
- grimy
- gruesome
- horrible
- horrid
- ignoble
- impure
- low
- mean
- miry
- moldy
- muddy
- musty
- nasty
- odorous
- offensive
- poverty-stricken
- ramshackle
- reeking
- repellent
- repulsive
- scurvy
- seedy
- shabby
- shoddy
- sloppy
- slovenly
- soiled
- sordid
- ugly
- unclean
- unkempt
- vile
- wretched
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.