Crossword clues for unkempt
unkempt
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unkempt \Un*kempt"\ (?; 215), a. [Pref. un- not + kempt, p. p. of kemb.]
Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair.
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Fig.; Not smoothed; unpolished; rough.
My rhymes be rugged and unkempt.
--Spenser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, from un- (1) "not" + kempt "well-combed, neat," from variant past participle of Middle English kemben "to comb," from Old English cemban "to comb," from Proto-Germanic *kambijan, from *kamb- "comb" (see comb (n.)). Form unkembed is recorded from late 14c. The verb kemb is rare after 1400s, but its negative past participle form endures.
Wiktionary
a. dishevelled; untidy; dirty; not kept up
WordNet
adj. not neatly combed; "wild unkempt hair"
not neat or cared for; slovenly; "his unkempt appearance"
not properly maintained; "an unkempt garden"; "native vistas and unkempt rambling paths"
Usage examples of "unkempt".
She continued to smile at him, and despite his unkempt appearance and the prison garb that marked him an absconder, she showed no sign of being afraid of him, Michael realized, with astonishment.
No elderly, overweight, unkempt and accented Polish Jew, long-retired from the snack bar business and needle trade, had ever managed an aperitif in the establishment, let alone membership.
He was dressed for the office, but his navy suit was wrinkled, his expensive tie askew, his thinning hair unkempt.
For a moment Boshy thought his senses were playing up with him, for there in the door entrance stood the identical girl--the same turkey-egg complexion, stubby nose, and her red hair only changed from unkempt to kempt.
But even with his unkempt appearance, he looked related to Brochan, tall and lean, even for his age.
Its unkempt fur stuck out in brown clumps on its sunken sides and hung in tufts from its lean haunches.
Residence will be extremely slovenly and unkempt, and evidence of the crimes will be found at the residence.
Beith in a disheveled robe and unkempt hair, her red eyes rimmed with sunken bags.
Akeela waited patiently until finally the door opened, revealing Beith in a disheveled robe and unkempt hair, her red eyes rimmed with sunken bags.
But his beard was an untidy straggling thing and he was a short, heavy-set man wearing a tight yellow jerkin and loose-fitting trousers that flared at the cuffs, Folkish clothes, and his face, framed by his long unkempt grayish hair, was a pure Folkish face, coarse-featured, heavy-jawed, bulbous-nosed.
Her hair is clean and has the cinnamon odour now common to her, but it is tangled and unkempt and as different as hair may possibly be from the jasmine scented coif that I erected every morning until recently.
The prisoners, in a downcast column, weary, spent, and unkempt, filed off to the Boer laager at Waschbank, there to take train for Pretoria.
Black curly hair, turning gray at the temples and filthy with dandruff, receded from his forehead and fell around his shoulders, while an oily, unkempt beard dripped down the sides of his fat cheeks, themselves the color of mildewed wax.
Through the grayness Gees could see the narrow line of beech and elm trees which the worthies of Odder designated a wood, an unkempt shrubbery running parallel with the graveled drive to the gateway, with thick undergrowth of brushwood and saplings.
With her battered shirt refashioned into a sash that emphasized her slim waist, and one ripped sleeve tying back her unkempt hair, she actually looked rather dashing, if one overlooked the raw flesh that circled her wrists.