unkempt

Example Sentences

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When Wilson first saw the house, it looked “unkempt from the outside” after being unoccupied for several months but was full of “incredible charm.”

From Washington Post

These multiplatinum albums are epically unkempt, for better and worse — it doesn’t get much blowzier, and it doesn’t get much more rollicking, or arrestingly melodramatic.

From New York Times

And not just any T-shirt and cargo shorts, but what could seem like the baggiest, most stretched out, most slept in, most consciously unflattering T-shirts and shorts; the most unkempt bed-head.

From New York Times

The unkempt dirt path to Little Egypt begins at the end of a dead-end road, hidden by sugar maples.

From Seattle Times

Corrigan is lean and tall; with his unguarded effusiveness and sandy, unkempt hair, he calls to mind a middle-school science teacher.

From New York Times