unkemptness
Example Sentences
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Millions of people viewed clips of him, criticizing his unkemptness.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 29, 2021
For another, the band are clearly fans of Kendal's Wild Beasts – and in his not dissimilar tales of incompetent dancing and general unkemptness, singer Mike Barrett helps humanise the band considerably.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 9, 2013
There was litter about it, an unkemptness, a rundowness, a lack of plan; no flowers, and bits of paper and scraps of wood scattered about on the ground.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
I don’t know how I never noticed the level of unkemptness before, and embarrassment floods through me, that Nate is with me, seeing it in its full not-glory.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
But the healthful leanness, characteristic of the race, had become emaciation; there was the studious unkemptness of mourning upon them, and they, who had ridden once, before the plagues of murrain and hail, traveled afoot.
From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Elizabeth Miller
