(a.) Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair.
(a.) Fig.; Not smoothed; unpolished; rough.
Example Sentences:
(1) While speaking to a group of drivers in the park, an unkempt lady interrupted us with taunts.
(2) Isolation and analysis of mutations affecting the unkempt gene, including complete deletions of this gene, indicate that there is no zygotic requirement for unkempt during embryogenesis, presumably due to the contribution of maternally supplied RNA, although the gene is essential during post-embryonic development.
(3) In a typical outbreak, 5% of the pullets were stunted and listless with unkempt feathers.
(4) Unkempt, exhausted families arrive every few minutes at the Sacred Heart church hall in downtown McAllen, eight miles from the Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley.
(5) The eternal undergraduate, all rumpled shirt, baggy cords, student specs and unkempt hair, he looks as though he's just got out of bed - which he has.
(6) Let’s just be brutally honest about that stereotype: an eccentric bohemian hippy, unkempt beard, John Lennon-style glasses, wading through muesli in dishevelled sandals.
(7) Kate was in jeans, looking a little unkempt and sleep-deprived, telling bystanders that the month-old Prince George "is with Granny at the moment" and "sleeping for now, fingers crossed!"
(8) Built like a truck, and as dishevelled as a trucker, he used his frame and his unkemptness with immense dexterity.
(9) As the prosecution spoke, Tsarnaev looked almost relaxed, his goatee trimmed, his hair fluffy and unkempt, wearing a grey suit and open-necked shirt.
(10) The unkempt gene of Drosophila encodes a set of embryonic RNAs, which are abundant during early stages of embryogenesis and are present ubiquitously in most somatic tissues from the syncytial embryo through stage 15 of embryogenesis.
(11) Expression of unkempt RNAs becomes restricted predominantly to the central nervous system in stages 16 and early 17.
(12) A burgeoning excrement problem In a nearby grassy plaza kids are tearing around a playground and some office workers kick a soccer ball about near several unkempt men and women who are sleeping or visibly high.
(13) But while Sanders continues to gain momentum and money, political observers remain wary of whether the unkempt septuagenarian socialist can actually defeat Clinton in the era of almost unlimited campaign spending, or whether Democratic voters are just enjoying what one political operative in New Hampshire this week called “a summer fling”.
(14) Randomly approached lower-ranking enlistees and draftees are much more likely to complain about their disease, even if minor, and are more likely to refuse to shave and be unkempt even without permission to grow a beard (in contravention of Army regulations).
(15) The room was full of sunlight, and now I saw him clearly: a stocky man, thirties, unkempt, with a round friendly face and unruly hair.
(16) Domestic chicks experimentally infected with Echinostoma caproni for 2 weeks showed a dilated ileum, unkempt feathers, watery diarrhoea, and weight loss.
(17) In that part of the forest is the unkempt and unloved world of civil service pay and reward.
(18) At that time, 78% of respondents thought that the vogue among young people of cultivating an unkempt look was past or on the wane (Table 1.).
(19) Both genes modify the normal smooth coat to a more upright, somewhat unkempt pelage.
(20) True, you could spot Hannah's backcombed bob and Dot's unkempt bird's nest in silhouette.