Definitions
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- adverb In an
unkempt manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Main Street is a half-mile long, unpainted "box - houses" fringe either end and cluster unkemptly to the west, forming the "city's" thickly populated "darky town."
Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Robert S. Carroll
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Her brown face was seamed with a hundred wrinkles, and her tangled, grizzled hair fell unkemptly over her shoulders.
The Story Girl Lucy Maud 1911
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Her brown face was seamed with a hundred wrinkles, and her tangled, grizzled hair fell unkemptly over her shoulders.
The Story Girl 1908
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Lead-singer, Katie, chirpily leads the band to the stage; herself clad in a vivid orange t-shirt portraying legendary rapper Tupac and with her mousey-brown hair unkemptly pigtailed either side of her face.
The Line Of Best Fit 2009
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