ill-kept

CLAUDIA: It seems to me sex in fiction is occupying the same place it always has – the half-queasiness of an ill-kept human secret.

Discussion: On Sex in Fiction 2009

The so-called intensive care wards were filthy, ill-kept and chaotic.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

Had a female novelist paraded all the revolting men that one encounters in Les Célibataires (The Bachelors, 1934) — “his greasy, dandruff-spattered head … exuding a powerful odour of ill-kept male” — she would have been accused of man-hating.

Monster of Marriage 2010

Had a female novelist paraded all the revolting men that one encounters in Les Célibataires (The Bachelors, 1934) — “his greasy, dandruff-spattered head … exuding a powerful odour of ill-kept male” — she would have been accused of man-hating.

Monster of Marriage 2010

He parallel parks in front of an ill-kept tenement sandwiched between luxury condo buildings still in relatively early stages of construction.

Monkeytown excerpt 4 Chris Vola 2011

Had a female novelist paraded all the revolting men that one encounters in Les Célibataires (The Bachelors, 1934) — “his greasy, dandruff-spattered head … exuding a powerful odour of ill-kept male” — she would have been accused of man-hating.

Monster of Marriage 2010

They were usually ill-kept reptile farms or fireworks shacks out here.

Silver Zombie Carole Nelson Douglas 2010

To all intents and purposes it was an ill-kept, forgotten boneyard, a dried-out patch fading in a land of sifting green - but we hadn't reckoned on the "guardians."

Zumpango: the guardians of a forgotten cemetery 2008

In the light they seemed less threatening—dusty and ill-kept, like stuffed predators in some old nature museum.

Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010

The sad one: across the street from our house is a little green: some trees, some ill-kept lawn, a fence that separates the grass from a hill of mostly overgrown foliage that rolls down to a road leading to the highway.

BOOK VIEW CAFE BLOG » The Dog at the Park, the Cat Across the Street 2010