Read full poem →Withal a meagre man was Aaron Stark, --
Cursed and unkempt, shrewd, shrivelled, and morose.
A miser was he, with a miser's nose,
Dictionary Entry
(of hair) Uncombed; dishevelled.
Origin
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Common Phrases
hair unkempt. unkemptappearance unkemptbeard unkemptman unkemptlook unkemptunkempt hair
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Poetry examples for “unkempt”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →You will be dark, unkempt,
but I pray for one glimpse of your face--
Read full poem →Here tulips bloom as they are told;
Unkempt about those hedges blows
An English unofficial rose;
Read full poem →And amazed that a wife struck to widowhood
Thought first of her unkempt room.