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

• drivers99 3y ago
  "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 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kempt Google Books Ngram Viewer for kempt vs unkempt: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=kempt%2C+unkempt&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=kempt%2C+unkem...