Un*kempt" (?; 215), a. [Pref. un- not + kempt, p. p. of kemb.]

1.

Not combed; disheveled; as, an urchin with unkempt hair.

2.

Fig.; Not smoothed; unpolished; rough.

My rhymes be rugged and unkempt. Spenser.

 

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