Adjective : The garden had an uncared-for look. ,uncared-for reminders of youth. From Dictionary.com.
Such wretched, uncared-for, sad-looking creatures I never saw. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience] Reference
The Salamanders would not have allowed him to lie there uncared-for. From Wordnik.com. [red dust] Reference
The path along which he seemed to be coming was bordered with a small and uncared-for hedge. From Wordnik.com. [Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive] Reference
It was set well back from the highway in the shadow of tall pines, and looked lonely and uncared-for. From Wordnik.com. [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference
I do not think a compost pile will do the harm, but unkempt, uncared-for spots seem to invite trouble. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
To her eye he had a rather uncared-for appearance nowadays; looked unbrushed, much less spruce than of old. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
Appalled by the problem of the uncared-for, the government enacts measures that give them insurance coverage. From Wordnik.com. [Stromata Blog:] Reference
Between it and the sidewalk in a narrow strip of hard-packed dirt grew a scraggly, uncared-for, foot-high hedge. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Again]
This one cried continually, and made efforts to escape as often as he saw his goats straying uncared-for about the hill. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
It is our present labor to harvest that fruit, and prevent it from falling fallow and uncared-for to the insensate ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]
There are many illiterate children, many children without schools, many uncared-for children, many children begging on the streets. From Wordnik.com. [PIONEERS AT OPENING OF CAMP] Reference
This was in charming contrast with life at Mrs. Silvernail's, in its freedom from parables, and from the uncared-for society of Miss. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860] Reference
There were too many people full of hate and bitterness crowded into a dirty, stinky, uncared-for closet-size section of a great city. From Wordnik.com. [Manchild in the Promised Land] Reference
The early-morning sun slid over the bougainvillaea-topped wall and fell upon the green confusion of the uncared-for garden at the back. From Wordnik.com. [Modesty Blaise]
In it I was treated worse than a slave, left, sick and heart-broken, and uncared-for, to the preying of a fever that destroyed my mind. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
They might throw open the house-doors with a shout and halloo, and fling away caps and boots with no more than an uncared-for reprimand. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
However, when Lafayette returned to Fredericksburg in 1825, he saw only an uncared-for small marble tombstone in the middle of a cornfield. From Wordnik.com. [History of American Women] Reference
Yet might they not their bodies/long leave uncared-for so. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original] Reference
She loved children, and these seemed so draggled and uncared-for. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince and Betty] Reference
Poor little uncared-for, unwanted human atoms, they are not children. From Wordnik.com. [Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow] Reference
The bathing pool had been the greatest pleasure of his uncared-for boyhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Shuttle] Reference
Was that like fighting for those other unloved, uncared-for, hungry darlings?. From Wordnik.com. [Lo, Michael!] Reference
When she passed thirty, her face coarsened and her uncared-for figure began to spread. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountebank] Reference
These lads wore the coarse uniform of the school, and had an unfed and uncared-for aspect. From Wordnik.com. [Jack 1877] Reference
Tawny hair, in thin uncared-for curls, fell from under his hunter's cap and over his collar. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference
Numbers of confined brigands, uncared-for, perished miserably of starvation within its walls. From Wordnik.com. [Old Calabria] Reference
Oh! if she had but made more of the uncared-for days that she had passed with him at the Hall!. From Wordnik.com. [Wives and Daughters] Reference
Yet there was still a dignity about it that neither uncared-for garden nor ruined beauty could destroy. From Wordnik.com. [Barbara in Brittany] Reference
It had in fact satisfied her, only because she had felt so uncared-for that she became insignificant even to herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Third Miss Symons] Reference
In some corner of the great world she still works, with patience and tenderest sympathy, amongst uncared-for children. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak A Story for Girls] Reference
Mr. Meredith still wore slippers and dressing gown, and his dark hair still fell in uncared-for locks over his high brow. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Valley] Reference
The first, I grieve to say, was in a bit of my own brushwood, left uncared-for evidently many a year before it became mine. From Wordnik.com. [Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers] Reference
Now only a few straggling, uncared-for vines clung forlornly to the shingles, and the windows were, as has been said, all boarded up. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922] Reference
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