unkept


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un·kept

 (ŭn-kĕpt′)
adj.
1. Unkempt: an unkept cemetery plot.
2. Not kept or fulfilled: an unkept promise.
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unkept

(ʌnˈkɛpt)
adj
1. (of a promise, secret, appointment, etc) broken or disregarded
2. (of a person or property) not maintained or looked after
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Adj.1.unkept - (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregardedunkept - (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded; "broken (or unkept) promises"; "broken contracts"
broken
contract - a binding agreement between two or more persons that is enforceable by law
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I follow another, easier, and to my mind wiser course, and that is to rail at the frivolity of women, at their inconstancy, their double dealing, their broken promises, their unkept pledges, and in short the want of reflection they show in fixing their affections and inclinations.
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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?
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Roxana stood awhile looking mutely down on him while he writhed in shame and went on incoherently babbling self-accusations mixed with pitiful attempts at explanation and palliation of his crime; then she seated herself and took off her hat, and her unkept masses of long brown hair tumbled down about her shoulders.
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POLYNEICES Ah me, my sisters, shall I first lament My own afflictions, or my aged sire's, Whom here I find a castaway, with you, In a strange land, an ancient beggar clad In antic tatters, marring all his frame, While o'er the sightless orbs his unkept locks Float in the breeze; and, as it were to match, He bears a wallet against hunger's pinch.
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The city is still congested, making it hard for citizens to forget the unkept promise to reduce the hassle of walking through town.
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