unkemptness

This unkemptness, however, made him offensive despite his face and figure.

They stand out from the other apartment blocks because of their unkemptness and, as such, they don't look too inviting.

But for his horrible unkemptness the man would have been as distinguished-looking as he was impressive.

Despite his slothfulness and his unkemptness, Haystack was a wise old bird.

He hated the tawdry unkemptness, the dirt and disorder, of Bohemian life, and especially its ready confusion of art with such a life.

He stood in front of it in all his down-at-the-heels unkemptness, one hand thrust in a pocket, fugitively rubbing between thumb and finger the two small coins that still remained to him.

Eventually those cars jam the parking lot, behind the Refectory, which is the cafeteria - and which by lunch time is filled with 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th graders who are similar in their scrubbed unkemptness.

Alice Morse Earle, who gardened in the Northeast earlier in this century, was only being more honest than most when she wrote of the "scanty unkemptness and dire disrepute" of her garden in late summer.

The great thing about mowing is that it is visually satisfying; with each overlapping pass, one more swath is shorn, and where there was once scraggliness and unkemptness, now there is neatness and trimness.

The fields and forests reach that late-summer state of verdant unkemptness, lobsters appear on almost every plate as the supply rises with the approach of autumn, and cottage gardens lapse into a slovenly sort of abundance on their march toward exhaustion.

And if added to this there be a repellent unkemptness, a wild disorder of dress, a bushiness of dark hair white at the roots, and an unchecked growth of white beard on a face once clean-shaven, the cu-mulative effect is quite shocking.

But although it might satisfy his hard-core fans, this book is flawed by Dr. Coles's habitual reliance on oral history, by the drabness of his interviewees' responses and by the unkemptness of form that is bound occasionally to tarnish a body of work as prolific as his.

He further underlined the irreverent pose with long, long wisps of hair falling in mock unkemptness about the models' shoulders; in sinewy knit skirts that brushed the ankle, topped with shearlings with marks resembling the random cracks in leather, or with boxy nylon or wool jackets.