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Recent Examples of unkept
Coach’s Brooklyn 34 Leather Shoulder Bag is large and slightly slouchy without getting anywhere near unkept.
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Tamim Alnuweiri,
InStyle,
10 Feb. 2026
The brands are angry and frustrated at Saks for not only the lack of communication, but also the unkept promises.
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Evan Clark,
Footwear News,
6 Jan. 2026
Nothing is untucked, unkept or out of place.
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Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 Aug. 2025
Dust accumulation under the bed meant bugs, not just an unkept hotel room.
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Chip Bell,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unkept
Tamim Alnuweiri,
InStyle,
10 Feb. 2026
The brands are angry and frustrated at Saks for not only the lack of communication, but also the unkept promises.
—
Evan Clark,
Footwear News,
6 Jan. 2026
Nothing is untucked, unkept or out of place.
—
Edgar Thompson,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 Aug. 2025
Dust accumulation under the bed meant bugs, not just an unkept hotel room.
—
Chip Bell,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for unkept
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unkept
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Sixteen children from the same family who were rescued from a dilapidated home in rural Ohio were living in wretched conditions with human waste all around, confined to just one room over much of the past four years, authorities said Wednesday.
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The parents and grandparents of 16 children found living in a dilapidated house in southern Ohio were arraigned Wednesday on more than a dozen felony child endangerment charges, officials said.
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The suspect is described as a Hispanic or Middle Eastern man, about 35 years old, approximately 5-foot-8 with a thin build, shaved head, brown eyes and scruffy facial hair.
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The special bond between Supergirl and her scruffy animal sidekick becomes a key plot point in Kara’s new solo movie, where Krypto is poisoned by space outlaw Krem of the Yellow Hills (Matthias Schoenaerts).
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But for cars that weighed around 3,100 pounds, those figures aren’t too shabby in terms of real-world performance.
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The result is a compassionate, elegant, unsettling book about some extremely shabby people.
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Changing their environment is more reliable and more neglected.
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Cinematographer Guillermo Garza shoots neglected settings like fine art, embracing the grime.
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Dings, dents, and tatty old stickers are seen as badges of honor, battle scars from a hectic life as an international jet-setter.
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The aging, tatty, late-modern Pimlico was demolished last year as 1/ST and the state of Maryland hammered out their $48-million deal for the state to take over the track.
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Too mangy, too rangy, prowling in their bony elegance, leaping weightless from dangerously precarious mounds of sharp edges, peering yellow- eyed from shadows.
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To write, especially in a first draft, is to submit myself to the mangy, cackling glory of not knowing.
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According to the gallery, the 25-minute film is set in a semi-abandoned hotel near Tokyo and reimagines the Greek myth of the goddess Persephone’s abduction by Hades.
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The city has been overwhelmed in recent years by an influx of abandoned and stray dogs and puppies.
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And this is in a nice, pretty on-campus facility, not the old, dumpy Astrodome (although the Astrodome is still up, which is another story).
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Sunday brings the end of another dumpy Miami Dolphins season, but not to the problems needing solutions or the organizational mess that demands more than a offseason cleanup on Aisle 5.
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“Unkept.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unkept. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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