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Recent Examples of unkept
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
The unkept lawns however, are probably intentional — at least in the Forest Hills neighborhood.
—Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 11 Mar. 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
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Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 11 July 2024
The unkept lawns however, are probably intentional — at least in the Forest Hills neighborhood.
—Diana Leyva, The Tennessean, 11 Mar. 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
See All Example Sentences for unkept
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unkept
Adjective
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The Gein farmhouse was a dilapidated house of horrors.—
Elizabeth Yuko,
Rolling Stone,
8 Oct. 2025
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The demolition of the former dilapidated Northridge Mall, which began last year, is finished.—
Hannah Kirby,
jsonline.com,
1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The impish Reeves brings puppy-dog codependence to the scruffy Estragon, who leans on Vladimir as his body and memory fail him.—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
29 Sep. 2025
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Pitt also sports a scruffy look in the ad, showing off a salt-and-pepper beard.—
Catherine Santino,
PEOPLE,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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His record against fellow ‘Big Six’ teams as a whole is not too shabby either.—
Art de Roché,
New York Times,
9 Oct. 2025
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Just then a figure stepped out of the shadows, or sidled, rather, a low, ruffianly type clad in a shabby, dark-green coat and leather gaiters.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Same premise as the exterior, but even more important: Don’t buy a car with a neglected interior.—
Jimmy Camp,
Oc Register,
4 Aug. 2025
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Close the Loop Following through on commitments is the simplest and yet shockingly most neglected way to earn long-term trust.—
Serenity Gibbons,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
Adjective
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The carpets were tatty; the meeting rooms were ill-equipped.—
Sam Knight,
New Yorker,
25 Aug. 2025
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Thierry notified me of his satisfaction with another grunt and reached into the pillowy recesses of his fleece to produce a tatty padded envelope stuffed with Euros.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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That also includes Leonard, a dapper old parrot who lives in the clinic, and Bitchy, a mangy, rangy alley cat who recently wandered into the office and took up residence.—
Duante Beddingfield,
Freep.com,
30 July 2025
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His Orlok is more feral and red-blooded than previous iterations, appearing swathed in ursine furs and accompanied by mangy curs.—
Celia Mattison,
Vulture,
27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Thousands of abandoned and derelict vessels around the US pose environmental and navigational challenges.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
12 Aug. 2025
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The 33 towns being considered for this project, which are expected to meet final approval in the coming weeks, are all on the brink of extinction with the number of empty and abandoned houses outnumbering those that are inhabited.—
Barbie Latza Nadeau,
CNN,
21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The dumpy old Abe Stark Sports Center, the ice rink on the boardwalk between 19th and 20th Streets, is getting a major renovation as well.—
Christopher Bonanos,
Curbed,
24 Sep. 2025
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Torry’s candidly dumpy, dingy, dated, wood panel lined courtroom allowed for the placement of contemporary art and the banging of nails into walls which would have been forbidden in one of the ornate ground floor courtrooms.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
8 July 2025
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“Unkept.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unkept. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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