Thesaurus / unkempt
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These 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-BURYUnkempt enthusiasm and rollicking good humour are the chief features of this little volume.
SOLOMON MAIMON: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.SOLOMON MAIMONUrb sniffed in short rapid inhalations, his unkempt visage twisted in a ferocious scowl.
WARRIOR OF THE DAWNHOWARD CARLETON BROWNEWORDS 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
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