I am not speaking of the uncertain shelters of those who struggle upon the skirts of civilisation, in careless, uncared-for wretchedness, without settled homes, or regular occupation,the miserable camp followers of life's warfare,living habitually from hand to mouth, in a reckless wrestle with the world, for mere existence.

Escape from the pursuit of soldiers was almost impossible, and they had been brutally beaten and bruised by infuriated captors; and then, uncared for, nor shown the slightest mercy, had been thrust into loathsome gaols to helplessly await trial, and a certain conviction.

A pale light, rising in the outer air, fell straight upon this bed; and on it, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this plundered unknown man.

They came all untaught and not ready, Spurred on in the mad rush for gold; They died here unsung and uncared for Of famine, and scurvy and cold.

[indifferent toward people] aloof, unapproachable, remote; uncaring. unattractive, unalluring, undesired, undesirable, uncared for, unwished^, unvalued, all one to. insipid &c 391; vain.

Adj. disliking &c v.; averse from, loathe, loathe to, loth, adverse; shy of, sick of, out of conceit with; disinclined; heartsick, dogsick^; queasy. disliked &c v.; uncared for, unpopular; out of favor; repulsive, repugnant, repellant; abhorrent, insufferable, fulsome, nauseous; loathsome, loathful^; offensive; disgusting &c v.; disagreeable c. (painful) 830.

Adj. hating &c v.; abhorrent; averse from &c (disliking) 867; set against. bitter &c (acrimonious) 895; implacable &c (revengeful) 919. unloved, unbeloved, unlamented, undeplored, unmourned^, uncared for, unendeared^, un-valued; disliked &c 867. crossed in love, forsaken, rejected, lovelorn, jilted.

Here and there, there were lofty mountains and deep cañons, as there are now, but the immense plains, which occupy the bulk of the land, were unwatered and uncared for, giving forth volumes of a penetrating alkali dust, almost as injurious to human flesh as to human attire.

Konrad, unnoticed and uncared for, stood alone in the hall where he had once been so welcome a guest.

The boy recollected how careful they had been at home never to let a grain be wasted, while here were great rafts of logs floating down the river, uncared for.

As far as the eye could see, to right or left, one vast sea of derelict corn, left uncared for on the land to rot in the Siberian winter.

He went out and took a look round the place; everything was shamefully neglected and uncared for; it was hopeless to begin work here.

After fifteen months in our tiny flat one feels lost and uncared-for in a big house.

Had he been taken ill on the road, perhaps been attacked with those formidable symptoms which sometimes come on suddenly after wounds that seemed to be doing well enough, and was his life ebbing away in some lonely cottage, nay, in some cold barn or shed, or at the way-side, unknown, uncared for?

I called the attention of one of my neighbors to it, but "Bones" was irresistibly droll, and Areturus, or Aldebaran, or whatever the blazing luminary may have been, with all his revolving worlds, sailed uncared-for down the firmament.

Where, however, the foot has been uncared for, curving in of the wall takes place to an alarming degree, and the heels curl underneath the foot to such an extent as to grow over the sole and the bars.

When Maggie saw him repel the hand that fain would have stroked his hair as in childish days, a longing came into her heart for some of these uncared-for tokens of her mother's love.

It is clear from Vancouver's narrative that some great epidemic had recently passed through the country, as manifested by the quantity of human remains uncared for and exposed at the time of his visit, and very probably the Indians, being afraid, had buried a house, in which the inhabitants had perished with the dead in it.

"And they wept bitter tears of disappointment and mortification; and one by one they dropped from the tree and lay unheeded, uncared for on the ground below.

She had the manner one sometimes sees in dismissed nurses who meet their former little charges unwashed or uncared for.

Most prisoners are wretched and poorly nourished, wear poor clothes and are uncared-for and unkempt.

It was made to feel the sense of some grave wants, which, however they might be supplied in the future, could no longer be unnoticed or uncared for.

They took no women into counsel,not from any distrust apparently, but in order that their children might not be left uncared-for, in case of defeat and destruction.

A narrow, unworn path leads to it from the Church of St. Agnes; it has been long left uncared-for and unfrequented, and, stripped of its movable ornaments, it is now in a half-ruinous condition.

The Florentine Misericordia was founded in the days when pestilence was ravaging the city so fiercely that the dead lay uncared for in the streets, because there was no man sufficiently courageous to bury or to touch them.