What's the difference between unkempt and untidy?

Unkempt


Definition:

  • (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.

Untidy


Definition:

  • (a.) Unseasonable; untimely.
  • (a.) Not tidy or neat; slovenly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nomboniso Gasa, an academic who introduced Ramphele to the media at an Agang SA launch event nearly a year ago, expressed disappointment at her U-turn: "I do think Mamphela has been extremely untidy in the way she's dealt with this.
  • (2) So the second about-turn means Delph may have has questions to answer regarding his thought process throughout an saga that has become untidy.
  • (3) The three of us agreed it was quiet, non-threatening, not particularly untidy, just a bit rundown – and obviously a very low-income area.
  • (4) There will be many Lib Dems – not just those close to Nick Clegg – who will be happy at his untidy end, leaving not just the party, but also politics.
  • (5) That thing of people rolling over and going, "Oh, it looks like I'm making things a bit untidy.
  • (6) So there's more untidy law waiting to be reformed or reconciled.
  • (7) Rollings was bright, charming, slightly untidy; he became Foxtons’ fixer, its good cop.
  • (8) I did once butterfly a leg of lamb while watching a YouTube video of someone demonstrating the procedure, but the result was pretty untidy.
  • (9) He lacks a bit of control in his frame so it all feels a bit untidy, but a very good start.
  • (10) Brook took his chance in a tight and at times untidy clash, with the judges handing him the contest 114-114, 117-111, 116-112.
  • (11) This campaign has unravelled and, while they could justifiably depart here bemoaning the non-award of a second-half penalty and even disputing the validity of Crystal Palace’s opening goal, this was all too frenzied and untidy for comfort.
  • (12) He told media that he used the word to refer to "untidy" women, not in a derogatory way.
  • (13) Surgeons should realize that their major involvements in research will lie in the relatively untidy field of clinical science, and it is hoped that this view will continue to influence the activities of the SRS.
  • (14) Three problems the authors think important in replantation of untidy amputations are discussed based on our 99 replantations with the success rate of 92.6% over a 4-year period.
  • (15) The momentum should have been theirs after Azpilicueta’s untidy lunge, studs up, into Mile Jedinak, but hope proved horribly short-lived.
  • (16) In an untidy start Sebastián Coates, perhaps momentarily forgetting he was no longer an Anfield defender, gifted possession to Philippe Coutinho.
  • (17) The ruling clears the way for the publication of the “black spider” memos, so called because of the prince’s notoriously untidy handwriting.
  • (18) He will need to get his hands dirty in the untidy and ruthless business that is Indian politics," one said in a cable entitled The son also rises: Rahul Gandhi takes another step towards top job.
  • (19) Littlewood was born out of wedlock in Stockwell, south London, to a mother who frowned on books, and she wrote later of feeling ugly, untidy and alien.
  • (20) He also caused controversy in 1999 in Edinburgh when he saw an untidy fuse box during a tour of a factory.