Unkemptness vs Scraggliness - What's the difference?
unkemptness | scraggliness |
The state or condition of being unkempt.
* 1920 , :
Roughness, scruffiness, or unkemptness.
* 2002 April 5, Charles McGrath, "
* 2002 April 18,
* 2004 , Carla Neggers, White Hot , ISBN 9780743496339,
As nouns the difference between unkemptness and scraggliness
is that unkemptness is the state or condition of being unkempt while scraggliness is roughness, scruffiness, or unkemptness.unkemptness
English
Noun
(-)- And if added to this there be a repellent unkemptness , a wild disorder of dress, a bushiness of dark hair white at the roots, and an unchecked growth of white beard on a face once clean-shaven, the cumulative effect is quite shocking.
scraggliness
English
Noun
(-)Rituals: Great Ways to Wreck A Quiet Weekend," New York Times (retrieved 20 Sep. 2011):
- The great thing about mowing is that it is visually satisfying; with each overlapping pass, one more swath is shorn, and where there was once scraggliness and unkemptness, now there is neatness and trimness.
Hollywood's Such a Mess These Days: Left and right, stars wear their hear unkept, Lexington Herald-Leader , p. E3 (retrieved 20 Sep. 2011):
- Ditto for Uma Thurman, whose loose blonde strands were defiant in their scraggliness . Your mother would have called this kind of hair a bird's nest.
p. 195:
- He was dressed casually, expensively, a contrast to his older brother's ragged, threadbare clothes and general scraggliness .