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Definition of unkept in English: unkeptadjective ʌnˈkɛptˌənˈkept 1(of a commitment or undertaking) not honoured or fulfilled. （承诺）未履行的；（任务）未完成的 unkept appointments and broken promises 未守的信约和违背的诺言。 Example sentencesExamples - Because they had never traded phone numbers or mailing addresses or even last names, the unkept appointment was assumed by both of them to be the end of the affair.
- It has laid bare the truths that equity without excellence is an empty achievement, quantity without quality an unkept promise.
- But what is often felt instead is what we view as the broken confidence, the unkept promise, the lack of support.
- But there always has to be at least one resolution unkept, so as not to upset the delicate balance of my low self-expectations.
- I lived there for 5 years before being lured away by the unkept promises of London.
- So what is to be done about the unkept promises of the new economy?
- I can therefore say goodbye to this particular forum because I know that I will never run out of unkept promises or miles to walk and that I may even continue to sprinkle the journey remaining before sleep with a new idea or two.
- Despite all the rhetoric and unkept promises, a light still flickers in the darkness.
- After one particularly harsh winter and many unkept promises from the U.S. Government, Cornplanter was forced to sell his tract of land along the mouth of Oil Creek in 1818.
- And should any one in any case be content that his oath shall go unkept on a merely unsubstantial controversy as to HOW it shall be kept?
2Not tidy or cared for. 不整洁的；未照看好的 lawns unkept and ponds neglected Example sentencesExamples - These features are lost, however, in what Patterson describes as a ‘bad atmosphere’ with poor lighting and a somewhat unkept environment.
- Some sound makes me look up into the eyes of a bearded, unkept man.
- With our children's minds in these sort of hands, we can probably count on seeing at least a further generation with more than its quota of unkept women.
- And at about two minutes later, I looked down the hallway and there was a man walking down the hall and the reason I noticed him was because he was rather unkept.
- A few years ago she had strange features - her hair was scraggly and unkept like a male hippie's - and she didn't notice the way her clothes never matched.
- More than stubble lines his jaw now; he looks unkept.
- I'm a sucker for a library that looks like a library - a little unkept, a little dusty, mildly disorganized and definitely overstuffed.
- Our backyard grass has a lot of wild grass as it kind of went unkept from the end of WWII until Wendy and I moved in.
- We turned left onto a narrow, unkept road, and drove another half mile, before we arrived at a large, austere building.
- We're surrounded by families with kids in every direction so I no longer feel shame for wearing my trackies and having unkept hair at three (ok six) in the pm.
- They were in a small, unkept dock - they walked along the waterfront, until they reached a set of stairs, leading down, to the water's height.
- A small callus covered the third finger of the lady's finger, and nails oddly unkept stretched out a bit, glinting in the sun's rays.
- I looked hot, lounging between the guy with the cut-just-so shaggy hair, placed around his head to give the impression of being unkept, and the girl in the 50-dollar hippie skirt.
- But every guy that came up to her didn't have Luke's shaggy, unkept hair or those deep, dark brown eyes that only Luke possessed.
- They were clearly homeless, wearing shabby clothes and unable to talk properly through their unkept teeth.
- ‘I… I guess I'll tell you the truth,’ the boy replied, absently brushing an unkept lock of black hair from his face.
- She could make out a small, unkept lawn to its side, circled by a broken, wiry fence.
- Speaking of hair, isn't it irritating to see unkept spiky mops being unsuccessfully passed off as fashionable mullets?
- His pants and shirt matched the car, dirty and unkept.
- Seeing only a few rodents, a fox and some other creatures running through the unkept grass, he continued across the circular field.
Definition of unkept in US English: unkeptadjectiveˌənˈkept 1(of a commitment or undertaking) not honored or fulfilled. （承诺）未履行的；（任务）未完成的 unkept appointments and broken promises 未守的信约和违背的诺言。 Example sentencesExamples - Despite all the rhetoric and unkept promises, a light still flickers in the darkness.
- So what is to be done about the unkept promises of the new economy?
- And should any one in any case be content that his oath shall go unkept on a merely unsubstantial controversy as to HOW it shall be kept?
- But there always has to be at least one resolution unkept, so as not to upset the delicate balance of my low self-expectations.
- Because they had never traded phone numbers or mailing addresses or even last names, the unkept appointment was assumed by both of them to be the end of the affair.
- I can therefore say goodbye to this particular forum because I know that I will never run out of unkept promises or miles to walk and that I may even continue to sprinkle the journey remaining before sleep with a new idea or two.
- But what is often felt instead is what we view as the broken confidence, the unkept promise, the lack of support.
- It has laid bare the truths that equity without excellence is an empty achievement, quantity without quality an unkept promise.
- I lived there for 5 years before being lured away by the unkept promises of London.
- After one particularly harsh winter and many unkept promises from the U.S. Government, Cornplanter was forced to sell his tract of land along the mouth of Oil Creek in 1818.
2Not tidy or cared for. 不整洁的；未照看好的 Example sentencesExamples - They were in a small, unkept dock - they walked along the waterfront, until they reached a set of stairs, leading down, to the water's height.
- I'm a sucker for a library that looks like a library - a little unkept, a little dusty, mildly disorganized and definitely overstuffed.
- We turned left onto a narrow, unkept road, and drove another half mile, before we arrived at a large, austere building.
- And at about two minutes later, I looked down the hallway and there was a man walking down the hall and the reason I noticed him was because he was rather unkept.
- Seeing only a few rodents, a fox and some other creatures running through the unkept grass, he continued across the circular field.
- Speaking of hair, isn't it irritating to see unkept spiky mops being unsuccessfully passed off as fashionable mullets?
- A small callus covered the third finger of the lady's finger, and nails oddly unkept stretched out a bit, glinting in the sun's rays.
- These features are lost, however, in what Patterson describes as a ‘bad atmosphere’ with poor lighting and a somewhat unkept environment.
- She could make out a small, unkept lawn to its side, circled by a broken, wiry fence.
- His pants and shirt matched the car, dirty and unkept.
- I looked hot, lounging between the guy with the cut-just-so shaggy hair, placed around his head to give the impression of being unkept, and the girl in the 50-dollar hippie skirt.
- Some sound makes me look up into the eyes of a bearded, unkept man.
- Our backyard grass has a lot of wild grass as it kind of went unkept from the end of WWII until Wendy and I moved in.
- More than stubble lines his jaw now; he looks unkept.
- We're surrounded by families with kids in every direction so I no longer feel shame for wearing my trackies and having unkept hair at three (ok six) in the pm.
- With our children's minds in these sort of hands, we can probably count on seeing at least a further generation with more than its quota of unkept women.
- A few years ago she had strange features - her hair was scraggly and unkept like a male hippie's - and she didn't notice the way her clothes never matched.
- ‘I… I guess I'll tell you the truth,’ the boy replied, absently brushing an unkept lock of black hair from his face.
- They were clearly homeless, wearing shabby clothes and unable to talk properly through their unkept teeth.
- But every guy that came up to her didn't have Luke's shaggy, unkept hair or those deep, dark brown eyes that only Luke possessed.
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