"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-w

"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...