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How to use unkempt in a sentence

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Found in a cramped spider hole, the once powerful president of Iraq was reduced to an unkempt figure, lonely, weak and defeated.
I tackled my wardrobes about a year ago, but like an unkempt ivy, disorder and chaos has returned.
His hair was almost as disheveled and unkempt as mine, and he was the first baboon in the troop who ever interacted with me.
On the other end of the phone, half the country away, is Vinnie, an unkempt, badly shaven, slovenly dressed loser.
I used to love trotting out of a morning to potter about the wilderness in my gown and pyjamas, all unshaved and generally unkempt.
During the tour, the press vilified the rockers as bad-mouthed, loud, gaudy and unkempt.
And then, like a walking, unkempt buzzkill, the campground security showed up.
Golden chains crept their way like unkempt vines across dark, mahogany shelves in between elegant cameos and glittering rings.
Almost immediately, a scruffy youth approached me, his unkempt appearance readily identifying him as a candyman.
Shabby squeak-toys and the headless action figures of a thousand neglectful tots rose from the unkempt lawns.
She walks carefully along a little stony path, which winds its way between the unkempt bushes.
A small girl kept her distance and looked on from beneath the unkempt fringe of a straggle of ravenesque hair.
I looked up into the sparkling eyes of a heavyset man with gray, unkempt hair and a white goatee.
It was never a formal or tidy place, the very opposite of our municipal cemeteries and more like an unkempt churchyard.
In fact, the bushes are uneven in setting out and in growth, unkempt and massively overgrown.
She described their past residence as rather unkempt and described them as pack rats.
Police said the man had a swarthy complexion, was generally unkempt, around 5ft 10 in tall and slim.
Next to Ojka's stiffly coifed hair, Uma's unkempt curls looked lovely around her face.
He looked unkempt and in some distress as he stepped delicately from his car wearing blue pyjama bottoms, slippers and a collarless white shirt.
Dozens of unkempt flowering bushes sprawled everywhere, unattended for as long as I could remember.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Democracy, if it means anything, means the rule of the planless man, the rule of the unkempt mind.
The lawns were unkempt, the bare windows stared at the trees like unlidded eyes.
You're going to get out of this wretched, unkempt state of melancholia at once.
Neither of them had any fear of dirt, and Fan had grown up not merely unkempt, but smudgy.
He had used the scissors on his long black mustache, and given it a snarly and unkempt appearance.
Most prisoners are wretched and poorly nourished, wear poor clothes and are uncared-for and unkempt.
The Paynim hastened to the dungeon, and brought forth the Count, bearded, unkempt and foredone.
Smiler came in, tattered and unkempt as usual, but wiry and sinewed, as anyone could see at a glance.
Mary has just come to call on me, bringing an unkempt bouquet of Scotch broom from the garden.
Peter knew me not at first, so changed and unkempt was I with my long journeyings.
He even began a smile in the shadows of his unkempt moustache.
There were two rough-haired, unkempt horses in the tumble-down stable.
It was a quarter well stocked with deformed, leering, unkempt and uncombed idiots, who held out hands or caps and begged piteously.
A gate in a beech hedge, reached across triple lawns, let them out before tea-time into the unkempt south side of their land.
Jack is white, around 5ft 7ins tall and thin with mousy brown unkempt hair, blue eyes, a pale complexion and his top front tooth is damaged.
He looked unkempt and in some distress as he stepped from his car wearing blue pyjama bottoms, slippers and a collarless white shirt.
I carried a clear picture of his unkempt hair, his unbrushed coat, his dominant spectacles, his dogmatic jaw.
I'm bound to admit that a more unshaven, unshorn, unkempt, and uneverything wretch I never saw outside the ancient and honorable order of tramps.
We found him a hard-featured individual, certainly not in his first youth, with grizzled locks and beard, unkempt and unshorn.
He ran through the unkempt garden, and was quickly at the door.
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