unclean
adjective
not clean; dirty.
uncleanness
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a word derived from
unclean.
Example Sentences
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Distrust, defeat, uncleanness, humiliation, sickness, death, terror, envy, anxiety and contempt.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2022
What must a woman have been through to want to grovel at this time of day in such uncleanness?
From Notes of a Son and Brother by Henry James
After a few words about the Fountain opened for sin and uncleanness, the speaker passed out, leaving the people with their eyes fixed upon the clock, and their thoughts upon the Saviour.
From The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. by John Matthias Weylland
He knew the theatre of the Roman city—"the consistory of all uncleanness" he calls it.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by T. R. (Terrot Reaveley) Glover
Fashion and Modernity.—Wherever ignorance, uncleanness, and superstition are still rife, where communication is backward, agriculture poor, and the priesthood powerful, national costumes are still worn.
From Human, All-Too-Human, Part II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
