160 examples of unkempt in sentences

Among these hills I rode in a light conveyance, with a trusty driver, whose unkempt flaxen hair hung shaggy about his ears and his leather neck of reddish tan.

His father was standing at one of the windows, his face haggard as from a night's watching, unkempt and unshorn, and with his hands thrust into his pockets.

But whoso entereth within this town, That sheening for celestial seems to be, Disconsolate will wander up and down, 'Mid many things unsightly strange to see, For hut and palace show like filthily; The dingy denizens are reared in dirt; No personage of high or mean degree Doth care for cleanness of surtout and shirt, Though shent with Egypt's plague, unkempt, unwash'd, unhurt.

Behind the fat man stood three other equally fat men, who held between them with grim firmness, by arm, neck and shoulder, a much smallerin fact, quite a smallman shabby, unkempt, and with a desperate look upon his unshaven face.

A man with a haggard face and unkempt hair, and clothes falling in pieces, came into the rath and began digging.

The people I saw crossing themselves whenever they passed a church, the bearded men who kissed the relics in the Church of the Assumption, the unkempt grave-eyed pilgrim, with his ragged bundle on his back and his little tea-kettle slung in front of him, who was standing quite still beside a pillar in the same church, have no parallels in England."

His cheeks were hollow, his hair unkempt, his clothing disordered.

untutored, unschooled (ignorant) 491. unkempt.

By reason of their hair, which they wore long and which now hung down in their eyes, and by reason also of their ridiculous loose red trousers and their long-tailed awkward blue coats, the Frenchmen showed themselves especially unkempt and frowzy-looking.

She paused in her quick, bird-like movements for she was waitress, cook, cashier, manager and owner, all rolled into oneand cocking a saucy, unkempt head at him asked that the question be repeated.

áspero, -a, rough, harsh, unkempt, rugged.

It dominated the unkempt, naked apartment, its voluptuous folds glittering crudely under the sun-replacing oil lamp which was set on a cigar-box on the stained deal table.

Her brown hair, unkempt and ragged, hung in elf locks about her sad little face.

Once a devoted admirer, wife of a Vienna pianist, longed for a lock of the composer's outrageously unkempt hair, and asked a friend to get her one.

Dorothea's first impulse, on coming to herself, was to smooth her unkempt hair and apologise for the disorder of her costume.

His pretty cousin, Oonah, was crying in a corner of the room, and Ragged Nance, an unkempt beggar-woman, to whom the Rooneys had done many a good turn, was screaming, "I tell you Shan More means to carry off Oonah to-night.

He remarked "a poor town it was in those days," a couple of rows of smoky cabins, tenanted by dirty women and ragged children, while the tall, unkempt frontiersmen lounged about in greasy hunting-shirts, breech-clouts, leggings, and moccasins.

Notice the italicized portion of the following: "Opposite the church, and partly screened by the scraggly evergreens of a broad, unkempt lawn, there is a large, octagonal, brick house, with a conservatory on the left."

Notice how much is added by the use of scraggly and unkempt.

exclaimed the hairy and unkempt outcast, as the bully approached heavily through the yielding sand.

The other bedroom was quite as unkempt; looking as if the occupant must always do his chamber work at the last moment before going to bed.

He was a Nihilist of the most uncompromising type; a huge, shaggy man, with an unkempt head and chest like those of a bear; and by his sidemore or lessthere was a pretty, petite, dainty little young wifebeauty and the beast, if ever that storied couple were seen in the flesh!

Unkempt for Disordered, Untidy, etc.

Unkempt means uncombed, and can properly be said of nothing but the hair.

Humbolt and Greeley hastily proceeded to git, which left two unkempt young girls standing there at Casey's elbow so that he could not expectorate where he pleased, or swear at all.

160 examples of  unkempt  in sentences