unneatadj.

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Ongekuyst, vnneate, Foule, or Filthy.

1716 B. Willis Notitia Parl. II. 134 The Church..is a pretty large Building, but something clumsey and unneat.

1766 C. Powys Diary 16 Aug. in Passages from Diaries Mrs. Powys (1899) 115 The whole kept so very un-neat that it hurts one to see almost the only place in England worthy to be styled our King's Palace so totally neglected.

1850 D. J. Browne Amer. Poultry Yard 71 The white of their plumage is not brilliant, and is sure to be un-neat in the places where they are usually kept.

1866 D. M. Mulock Noble Life II. iii. 90 A letter, so unlike Helen's, so un-neat, blurred and blotted.

1949 A. I. Bezzerides Thieves' Market iv. 44 This was not the careless, unneat man that Nick knew, but a stranger in the coffin.

2000 A. Marshall How Cities Work iii. 69 I love El Camino Real. It's unhomogenized, unneat, and uncontrolled.

1836 N. Paterson Manse Garden i. 79 A great degree of unneatness in the mode of training.

1958 Public Admin. Rev. 18 255/2 A sense of the unneatness and general unpredictability of the results of human activities.

2008 A. Nicolson Sissinghurst v. 114 We represented disruption, unneatness, a departure from the way it had been for the last ten or fifteen years.