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Macha on April 29, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: What's Going on with ‘Nonplussed’? (2017)

One of these is not like the others. Toward as the opposite of untoward appears in shakespeare

drivers99 on April 29, 2024 [–]

"kempt" as well. So I don't think the purpose is to only use words that don't actually exist, but where the negative is much more common.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kempt

Google Books Ngram Viewer for kempt vs unkempt: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=kempt%2C+unkem...

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