Meanings of kempt in English

The narrow faces of the swamp rats, framed by scraggly, ill-kempt hair.

He sported a nondescript gray sweater and an awful, ill-kempt goatee.

A sudden shame of his disordered, ill-kempt appearance made him perhaps the more defiant.

He had got into his clothes and made himself kempt.

They were kempt and sheveled but their behavior was peccable if not mildly gruntled.

I knew I had not looked so well kempt during my own time in the pavilion.

This was the most ill-kempt of Armada's ridings.

At this moment, from another hatch, an ill-kempt soldier with a musket appeared, followed by two figures.

It was pale now under the ill-kempt hair, and the set purpose of helpfulness was stamped upon it.

It consisted of an old-fashioned, long, straggling two-storeyed building, situated in the centre of a large, ill-kempt compound.

But lawns in medieval times weren't necessarily very kempt; more likely to sparkle with daisies and violets, trefoils and speedwell.

Some new orator gained the ears of the rabble at this moment, and the ill-kempt heads swayed from side to side.

The guard's uniform was shabby and ill-kempt and his cap as crumpled as his face, his rifle askew on his shoulders.

The usual women were ill-kempt and even dirty, their faces blank with mental apathy, except when they laughed hysterically or giggled.

Greatly did we rejoice thereat, for Jamestown had become as slovenly and ill kempt a village as ever the sun shone upon.

A London, an England, kempt and self-respecting; swept and garnished of slums, and plutocrats, advertisement, and jerry-building, of sensationalism, vulgarity, vice, and unemployment.