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  • The People of the Unkempt Anus singing "do you like to poo alot?"

    HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! CC 2009

  • Unkempt and disordered, bedaubed with mud that had dried upon him, and with much of his clothing torn to rags, he had but just dropped into his easy – chair, when Mr. Grewgious stood before him.

    The Mystery of Edwin Drood 2007

  • (Unkempt homes is a sign that the IDP family is not coping well for one reason or another.)

    Wanderlustress: 2005

  • Daily Clarion: Unkempt yard owners on notice; cemeteries may be next

    Archive 2005-06-01 2005

  • Unkempt and ill-mannered, Vanderbilt was shunned by much of the polite society of the day.

    The Tides of Fortune Julia Flynn Siler 2007

  • (Unkempt homes is a sign that the IDP family is not coping well for one reason or another.)

    Kass II 2005

  • Unkempt locks of heather overhung the brow of each steep, whence at divers points a bramble swung forth into mid-air, snatching at their head-dresses like a claw.

    A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

  • What I thought was amusing was dictionary.com example usage: 1. Unkempt; slovenly: frowzy clothes; a frowzy professor.

    von Storch on MBH "Shoddiness" « Climate Audit 2005

  • Unkempt, bearded to the eyes, there he stood clutching his shapeless old cabbage-tree, in mud-stained jumper and threadbare smalls — the very spit of the unsuccessful digger.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • Unkempt locks of hair straggled across his dingy, paint-spattered T-shirt.

    Death Blow Britton, Vickie & Jackson, Loretta 2002

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