'unkept' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective used to describe something that has been neglected and not cared for with attention or effort. Example sentence: The unkept garden was filled with weeds and overgrown bushes.
I head there to meet 36-year-old chef Rodolfo Guzman, a wiry man with a mop of unkept black hair.
Outlining counter-terrorism plans, Mr Obama condemned the Bush administration's "false choice" between constitutionally guaranteed freedoms and security, breezily promising to close the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay (a promise as yet unkept) and adhere to the rule of law.
But even if he achieves this, other promises, such as big rises in the minimum wage and in public servants' pay, will go unkept.
Hedge funds are chipping away at their business, charging high fees in exchange for the promise (often unkept) of performance above stockmarket benchmarks.
A promise unkept ReprintsWhen Brazil became a democracy again it managed to keep the army out of politics but did not define a clear new role for it.
The banlieues are becoming "more isolated", and marked by an "intensification of Muslim identity" in reaction to unkept promises of integration.The report notes a tendency for Muslim children to opt out of school meals because of a lack of halal food.
To deal with those, Sonia Gandhi, Congress's leader, will reissue a lot of unkept promises when the election campaign begins: to bring everyone electricity, piped water, schools and jobs.
Underlying this malaise is an intangible sense of insecurity: about finding a regular job; about making ends meet at the end of the month; about the creeping bankruptcy of the social system; about the unresolved tension in the banlieues; and about the failure of politicians to make any difference.Years of unkept promises have undermined trust in the political system.
At a time of continuing high unemployment and low growth, the Front's deft use of the politics of victimisation, combined with widespread disillusion with traditional parties and the unkept promises of the elite, counts more.
A promise unkept Reprints Related items Canada's oil boom: Building on sandMay 24th 2007When news broke in December that construction had briefly halted on The Bow, the showpiece headquarters of EnCana, Canada's largest independent energy firm, it sent shock waves across Calgary.
