Exempel på unkempt

• Curly grey hair, wild and unkempt, barefoot on this cold day, wearing a partially unravelled pullover and ancient cord trousers.

• Their longish unkempt hair signified both a lack of bodily control and disrespect for the social conventions of middle-class culture.

• They did not want their children to see them looking frail or unkempt.

• Most familiarly, of course, unkempt hair expressed ascetic withdrawal from the world.

• Hundreds of thousands of ill-fed, unkempt, miserable strays are, sadly, put down.

• There is an example of what will become graveyards in the future, "unkempt graveyards," and nothing is being done while this is happening.

• The unkempt wastes of derelict land need to be used, and put away as an eyesore.

• The time has come to protect those unkempt hedges.

• The effect on the landscape is mainly confined to the increasingly unkempt woodlands and coppices.

• You cannot expect the birth of new industries in the rather unkempt graveyards of the old.

• There is very little sympathy for the sullen, rude, violent youth of the most appalling and unkempt appearance.

• Antisocial behaviour covers a multitude of sins, from unkempt gardens to systematic persecution.

• The gardens have become unkempt and some of the houses have taken on an air of disreputability.

• Its unkempt banks are festooned with all manner of discarded materials, from sanitary ware to leaflets promoting the virtues of the poll tax.

• On our round one day there came a seedy-looking medical man, dishevelled, untidy and unkempt, with a quaint far-away look in his eyes.