much-cared-for

Updated: June 5, 2025

A very little strength and a very little tallness, and a few delicate long lines meeting in a point, not a perfect point neither, but blunt and unfinished, by no means a creditable or apparently much-cared-for example of Nature's workmanship, made, only to be trodden on to-day, and to-morrow to be cast into the oven, and a little pale and hollow stalk, feeble and flaccid, leading down to the dull brown fibres of roots.

John Ruskin - Frondes Agrestes: Readings in 'Modern Painters'