unkempt
adjective
Origin of unkempt
Related Words for unkempt
shaggy, scruffy, dilapidated, neglected, grungy, grubby, disheveled, messy, bedraggled, coarse, crude, dirty, disordered, rough, slipshod, slovenly, tousled, unclean, unimproved, unpolishedExamples from the Web for unkempt
Contemporary Examples of unkempt
Lemkin hung around the proceedings, disheveled and unkempt, but determined.
The typically fresh-faced, photogenic 31-year-old actor is sporting a bushy, unkempt, downright Biblical-looking beard.
Andrew Garfield on the Evils of Capitalism, the Hacking Scandal, and Criticism of ‘Spider-Man 2’Marlow Stern
September 10, 2014
Al Pacino comes dressed in black and gray, wearing multiple bracelets and an unkempt tuft of hair poking up from his scalp.
Al Pacino Does What He Wants to Do: 'The Humbling,' Scorsese, and That 'Scarface' RemakeAlex Suskind
September 9, 2014
Strands of unkempt white hair wave above his head like an anti-surrender flag.
Today, instead of men performing backbreaking work on creaking machinery, unkempt grass bends in the light breeze.
Historical Examples of unkempt
He ran through the unkempt garden, and was quickly at the door.
The Dare Boys of 1776Stephen Angus Cox
Shorn was the unkempt mop of hair and vanished the impudent swagger.
Cy Whittaker's PlaceJoseph C. Lincoln
He even began a smile in the shadows of his unkempt moustache.
The Market-PlaceHarold Frederic
There were two rough-haired, unkempt horses in the tumble-down stable.
The Return of Sherlock HolmesArthur Conan Doyle
Peter knew me not at first, so changed and unkempt was I with my long journeyings.
Sir LudarTalbot Baines Reed