: not kept
an unkept promise
an unkept garden
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The Missouri Republican focus on migrants comes after former President Donald Trump, now the presumptive GOP nominee, spent years focusing on the issue, including an unkept promise that the United States would build a wall along the southern border and that Mexico would pay for it.
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Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 11 July 2024
Not to mention the mounting frustration of leaders from the global south over unkept promises of aid.
—Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
Social media commenters would say her hair looked unkept because it wasn’t always groomed to their liking.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 30 Oct. 2023
Movie trailers can be full of unkept promises.
—Vulture, 27 July 2022
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Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 11 July 2024
Not to mention the mounting frustration of leaders from the global south over unkept promises of aid.
—Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
Social media commenters would say her hair looked unkept because it wasn’t always groomed to their liking.
—Elizabeth Ayoola, Essence, 30 Oct. 2023
Movie trailers can be full of unkept promises.
—Vulture, 27 July 2022
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“Unkept.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unkept. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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