The old lady's house was unkempt and filled with garbage.
His long beard and unkempt hair made him look like a vagabond.
"In the morning, my hair is unkempt and difficult to comb."
The man's appearance was unkempt and soiled.
The garden was overgrown and unkempt, with weeds spreading across the flower beds.
The little stowaway's unkempt hair gave him away.
He arrived at the meeting looking disheveled, with untidy hair and wrinkled clothes.
Unkempt appearance led to low standards of maintenance of the other small green areas in the estate.
Carrie's father was a brutish man, large and unkempt, with none of the refined qualities possessed by most of their acquaintances.
Unkempt is a fossilized form of the word "uncombed." It has nothing to do with kept, which is the past of keep.
unkempt
messy, clumsy, unkempt etc.
Unkept - not retained, not preserved, not maintained Unkempt - neglected, untidy because of neglect, disheveled (like the unkempt clothes of a tramp) Essentially, the word, unkept, is not commonly used in English.
She has a retentive memory, able to remember even the smallest details of past events.