Adjective : unkempt hair. ,unkempt clothes; an unkempt lawn. From Dictionary.com.
She's almost Martha Stewart-like in unkemptness, you know?. From Wordnik.com. [John McCain, too rich to be President.] Reference
Despite his slothfulness and his unkemptness, Haystack was a wise old bird. From Wordnik.com. [Project Pope]
But for his nise unkemptness the man would have been as muddy as he was capitalist. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Engaging Iran] Reference
These are all over the place, and contribute mightily to the impression of unkemptness that pervades everything. From Wordnik.com. [A Much Too Long Short Vacation « Hyperpat’s HyperDay] Reference
He still feels, moreover, some of the old "wiliness" and "unkemptness" within himself; he thinks they are of the Jews and of none others -- and he wants to get rid of them. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
However, denying an individual a firearm because of simple hurriedness/unkemptness fits (1) and (2) because the customer may return at a later time with a different mindset/wardrobe. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Consumer Supremacy?] Reference
This may seem harmless at first, or even desirable, but since nothing is wholly pure it leads us to grow heartless with the unkemptness of existence, and to think we can make order by imposing rigid rules. From Wordnik.com. [The Conversation Between Soul and Spirit] Reference
It was basically what you imagine when you think of LA, and I hadn't actually had had much of it until then - in fact, a distinctive characteristic of the city seems to be to connect items of interest and/or beauty a museum, a farmers' market, Hollywood, whatever with enormous patches of great squalor and - not quite ugliness, nor run-downness, but...unkemptness maybe. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
Apparently, this is what lies behind all that exacting unkemptness. From Wordnik.com. [Yale Daily News: Latest Issue] Reference
In that time I let my beard grow, and trained my hair into a patriotic unkemptness. From Wordnik.com. [The Trampling of the Lilies] Reference
Despite questions of lack of hygiene and unkemptness, both attended school regularly. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
Then let them make an end of their unkemptness and pay their vows and go around the ancient House. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference
For an experiment in mass unkemptness, Whiskerino produces some incredibly meticulous photography. From Wordnik.com. [KansasCity.com: Front Page] Reference
P: Then let them make an end of their unkemptness and pay their vows and go around the ancient House. From Wordnik.com. [Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side] Reference
Straight ahead he saw the garden, lying graceless and deserted, with the unkemptness of extreme old age. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice of the People] Reference
There are two features about him, then, which seem to strike every one, his unkemptness and his shyness. From Wordnik.com. [George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings] Reference
"I come from Madam Bowker," he explained to Craig, humbly conscious of his own disarray and toiler's unkemptness. From Wordnik.com. [The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel] Reference
Many people regard unkemptness as a sign of genius; which is, I daresay, the reason why poets seldom wash their necks. From Wordnik.com. [Gossamer 1915] Reference
The pitiful sight of the girl, the ragged skirt, the terrible unkemptness of the small body, almost brought a shout from his lips. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the Storm Country] Reference
But what at the moment impressed Waggoner more even than the general unkemptness of the stranger's aspect was the look out of his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Thunders of Silence] Reference
A figure of odd medleys, in which the erudition is combined with much of Autolycus, and the unkemptness with something of à Kempis. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen Pedauque] Reference
"Oh, it is not that," replied Oscard; "it is a feeling of unkemptness and want of smartness among these men who look so clean and correct. From Wordnik.com. [With Edged Tools] Reference
I thought further signs that the Mad Hatter was intended to be a love interest (though, yes, I’m glad they didn’t actually end up together) was him shown in a flashback sequence with the White Queen looking decidedly less mad than he does presently (like, he’s gone mad because of the rule of the Red Queen, and his twitchiness and unkemptness will be reversed once she’s gone) and at the end, when he says pleadingly to Alice, “You can stay in Wonderland.” and also, that he is of typical leading-man human proportions. unlike the squat older MH from the animated film. because there is a general trend that in order to be main love interests one has to be conventionally attractive and proportioned. From Wordnik.com. [Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is Almost a Great Feminist Fairytale « Gender Across Borders] Reference
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