Definition of "unkemptness" [unkemptness]

• The state or condition of being unkempt. (noun)

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• "These are all over the place, and contribute mightily to the impression of unkemptness that pervades everything."
• "He's worked in politics pretty much his entire professional life, developing a reputation for insane hours and comical unkemptness in the Clinton administration, attaching himself to think tanks and writing a policy book "The Pro-Growth Progressive" during the Bush years, and then joining the Obama White House in a position that was far beneath the role he'd served for Bill Clinton."
• "Untamed locks were the signature style of sexually unchaste or barbarian women like the British warrior Queen Boudicca, women in mourning whose show of unkemptness was appropriate in the context of their grief, or else the special preserve of goddesses, who were exempt from the usual civic norms."