ill-tended

Traister recalls 1992 feminist delight with Clinton "when she marched into the White House with ill-tended hair, barren cookie trays and big ideas about health care," and shows us why much of that support was not there 15 years later.

Geri Spieler: Big Girls Don't Cry by Rebecca Traister Geri Spieler 2010

Traister recalls 1992 feminist delight with Clinton "when she marched into the White House with ill-tended hair, barren cookie trays and big ideas about health care," and shows us why much of that support was not there 15 years later.

Geri Spieler: Big Girls Don't Cry by Rebecca Traister Geri Spieler 2010

Perhaps the road itself keeps them here; evidence of its former incarnation as a cracked, ill-tended, vertiginous country byway.

The Last Highway Jonathan Sapers 2011

Traister recalls 1992 feminist delight with Clinton "when she marched into the White House with ill-tended hair, barren cookie trays and big ideas about health care," and shows us why much of that support was not there 15 years later.

Geri Spieler: Big Girls Don't Cry by Rebecca Traister Geri Spieler 2010

Traister recalls 1992 feminist delight with Clinton "when she marched into the White House with ill-tended hair, barren cookie trays and big ideas about health care," and shows us why much of that support was not there 15 years later.

Geri Spieler: Big Girls Don't Cry by Rebecca Traister Geri Spieler 2010

Traister recalls 1992 feminist delight with Clinton "when she marched into the White House with ill-tended hair, barren cookie trays and big ideas about health care," and shows us why much of that support was not there 15 years later.

Geri Spieler: Big Girls Don't Cry by Rebecca Traister Geri Spieler 2010

Not the urine and cabbage smell of lived-in but ill-tended blocks, but the smell of old ordure and death.

Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners 2009

At Remuh Synagogue -- one of only two that remain open -- the cemetery is ill-tended.

Tamar Abrams: Yom Hashoah: Filling the Empty Spaces 2009

Combat engineers had blasted a portal through a sand berm and cleared a path through the deserted and ill-tended minefield.

Blitzkrieg 2008

I remember coming back from London in the mid-seventies and seeing Gotham with new eyes, as one does after an absence — the potholed streets and broken sidewalks; the graffiti smeared everywhere, as if punks had defaced the whole city; the dirt and litter; the shabby, ill-tended buildings; the thugs and bums; the rumpled, stoop-shouldered, careworn pedestrians, even on Fifth Avenue.

Mr. Sammler's City Myron Magnet 2008