kempt
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D
–adjective
1. neatly or tidily kept: a kempt little cottage.
2. combed, as hair.
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kempt (adj.)
is a back-formation from unkempt and means the opposite of it, "neat, well-groomed. It’s a lost positive that has become Standard.
The movie has the attitude of a gas station attendant who tells you to check your own oil. It's grungy and unkempt, and Dante and Randal look like they have been nourished from birth on beef jerky and Cheetos. They are tired and bored, underpaid and unlucky in love, and their encounter[s] with customers feel like a series of psychological tests.
Y
D
–adjective
1. neatly or tidily kept: a kempt little cottage.
2. combed, as hair.
S
kempt (adj.)
is a back-formation from unkempt and means the opposite of it, "neat, well-groomed. It’s a lost positive that has become Standard.
The movie has the attitude of a gas station attendant who tells you to check your own oil. It's grungy and unkempt, and Dante and Randal look like they have been nourished from birth on beef jerky and Cheetos. They are tired and bored, underpaid and unlucky in love, and their encounter[s] with customers feel like a series of psychological tests.
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