in rags vs unkempt

in rags

prep
  • Very poor or lowly. 

  • Dressed in very old, torn clothes. 

unkempt

adj
  • Uncombed; dishevelled. 

  • Rough; unpolished 

  • Disorderly; untidy; messy; not kept up. 

How often have the words in rags and unkempt occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )