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unkempt
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  • The abandoned house stood unkempt with its windows boarded up and its yard overgrown with weeds.
  • 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
  • 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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  • This kid has long, unkempt hair and a hardened look about him.†  (source)
  • 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.
  • He was a young Japanese man with long, unkempt hair and bad skin.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • The shells of wreckage cantered down, and hours later, when the strange, unkempt silence settled itself in Molching, the local LSE could hear something.†  (source)
  • The freeway billboard has a drawing of Mack in his clown clothes and Stella on her hind legs and an angry animal with fierce eyes and unkempt hair.†  (source)
  • A baby-blue Ford Torino rests on blocks in the unkempt yard, weeds sprouting from its engine compartment.†  (source)
  • His hazel eyes twinkled playfully from beneath a mop of unkempt blond hair, and twoday-old stubble completed the look.†  (source)
  • "What are you guys doing?" a slightly overweight teenager with unkempt black hair and a distinctive scar across the top of his forehead asked us.†  (source)
  • As we stepped into the room, the man in the wheelchair looked up from under shaggy, unkempt hair.†  (source)
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