unkemptness

Example Sentences

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Millions of people viewed clips of him, criticizing his unkemptness.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2021

For another, the band are clearly fans of Kendal's Wild Beasts – and in his not dissimilar tales of incompetent dancing and general unkemptness, singer Mike Barrett helps humanise the band considerably.

From The Guardian • Mar. 9, 2013

I don’t know how I never noticed the level of unkemptness before, and embarrassment floods through me, that Nate is with me, seeing it in its full not-glory.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

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.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

But the healthful leanness, characteristic of the race, had become emaciation; there was the studious unkemptness of mourning upon them, and they, who had ridden once, before the plagues of murrain and hail, traveled afoot.

From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth