Sample Sentences for
unkempt
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    The abandoned house stood unkempt with its windows boarded up and its yard overgrown with weeds.
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    More tormentors, Buck decided, for they were evil-looking creatures, ragged and unkempt; and he stormed and raged at them through the bars.  (source)
    unkempt = dirty and messy
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    In front of the sink stood an unkempt woman with gray hair stringing about her face.†  (source)
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    He was a young Japanese man with long, unkempt hair and bad skin.†  (source)
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    There was litter about it, an unkemptness, a rundowness, a lack of plan; no flowers, and bits of paper and scraps of wood scattered about on the ground.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Except now that I had it, I felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.†  (source)
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    The longer Harry looked at Neville, the worse he appeared: One of his eyes was swollen yellow and purple, there were gouge marks on his face, and his general air of unkemptness suggested that he had been living rough.†  (source)
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    This kid has long, unkempt hair and a hardened look about him.†  (source)
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    His thin, colorless hair was unkempt and there was a large bald patch on top.†  (source)
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    I glanced at the old, unkempt scientist, but I could not determine if he was joking.†  (source)
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    Thick hair, shaggy and unkempt and black as ink.†  (source)
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    As we stepped into the room, the man in the wheelchair looked up from under shaggy, unkempt hair.†  (source)
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    There were big circles under his eyes; his hair was unkempt.†  (source)
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