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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
uncared for
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The yard was dirty and uncared for.

Usage examples of "uncared for".

She looked almost as washed-out as her clothes, and stringy blond hair hung uncared for about a sharp, gaunt face with striking ice-blue eyes.

Her hair looked shaggy and uncared for, but the mere fact that she didn't put on airs or pretend to be beautiful made her seem more attractive to him.

Well, the friend that was with me says they will, and he has commissioned me to act for him, promising me that if I am taken first and he is left, the cultured family of the slums shall not go uncared for.

Most of the well-to-do people regard a beggar as someone to be despised, dirty and uncared for, rude and uncivilized.

Your children are clean and tidy, the others dirty and uncared for.

The dogs in time break the coffins open and pick the bones, which lie uncared for, to be bleached by the frosts of winter and suns of summer.

Helen's knives, expensive but uncared for, are never sharp enough.

I could see that, even though her dark brown curls were now uncared for and her face dirtied with smeared tears.