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.
