What is "unkept"

Usage examples of "unkept".

They sat on the edge of the bridge, obviously clad in a garment each, very dirty and unkept, a little boy and a girl of about seven and nine.

Just a small empty house with three unkept little children racing through and around it.

He was a fearsome looking sort, with his wild hair and unkept beard, and dealing with miners was dangerous.

This space between the outer and inner walls appeared unkept and neglected.

A neat, well-tended garden surrounded the cottage, in startling contrast to the wild, unkept castle grounds.

One arm was bandaged and held awkwardly in a sling, but her general air of prim neatness made Anna very much aware of her own unkept appearance.

Dan drove about a mile, then turned into a long, unkept driveway overhung with thick cottonwoods.

An unkept air hung over the place, as if Bill Cole had done absolutely nothing to it since the death of his parents some twenty years ago.

The old buckskin shirt with long fringes and the unkept beard made him look like a mountain man of long ago.

And should any one in any case be content that his oath shall go unkept on a merely unsubstantial controversy as to how it shall be kept?

Jagged unkept stone walls crisscross the haphazard layout of the city, marking divisions claimed by feuding nobles over the years.

Today there is only one other customer leaning against the bara balding man in his forties wearing a crumpled and grubby raincoat over what looks like an equally unkept business suit.

This woman had been lovely and regal, with hordes of unkept gallants vying for her favor.

She expected to find unkept quarters, dirty instruments and the mumbo-jumbo paraphernalia of the shyster M.

But the circumstance of the barge and the unkept rendezvous are familiar.