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Definition of unclean:
Synonyms:
rancid, smudgy, greasy, musty, muddy, scurvy, spattered, unswept, nonkosher, clogged, sooty, unchaste, black, grungy, cheating, polluted, bleary, dirty, tref, defiled, good, travel-stained, restraint, tainted, spotted, fouled, feculent, uncleanly, slimy, besmeared, besplashed, bedraggled, dusty, besmirched, besmutted, rotten, religion, smudged, snot-nosed, splashed, untouchable, smirched, scurfy, flyblown, muddied, sullied, tarnished, maggotty, clean, bespattered, draggled, raunchy, unwashed, decayed, foul, filmed over, nasty, rank, smeared, putrescent, sacred, stinking, begrimed, fecal, squalid, moldy, besmuttered, draffy, oily, befouled, sordid, mildewed, buggy, unhealthful, travel-soiled, terefah, vile, pestiferous, contaminating, ill-gotten, mucky, sex, marked-up, unsportsmanlike, dingy, dust-covered, smutted, stained, faecal, grimy, unsporting, lousy, snotty, grubby, scummy, maculate, soiled, daubed, filthy, contaminated, blurred.
- impure (part of speech: adjective)
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unclean (part of speech: adjective)
- grungy,
- scruffy,
- filthy,
- fetid,
- putrid,
- defiled,
- mucky,
- foul,
- insalubrious,
- obscene,
- toxic,
- septic,
- smutty,
- grubby,
- infectious,
- icky,
- sordid,
- grimy,
- unhygenic,
- slovenly,
- scatological,
- untidy,
- festering,
- dusty,
- disgusting,
- shabby,
- offensive,
- dirty,
- unsanitary,
- impure,
- crummy,
- sloppy,
- muddy,
- odious,
- murky,
- squalid,
- dingy
Usage examples:
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Whereupon his face changed colour, and became an unclean grey.
- "The Sins of Séverac Bablon", Sax Rohmer. -
Hear the wailing winds that be By wings of unclean spirits made!
- "The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I", Elizabeth Barrett Browning. -
Let me try: the term dog was used by the Jews to express anything unclean, despicable; the Palestine dogs were wild, savage animals, despised and scouted by every one; and so people who led wicked lives, without any right feeling or principle, are compared to dogs.
- "Odd", Amy Le Feuvre.