impure
adjective
not pure; mixed with extraneous matter, especially of an inferior or contaminating nature.
impurely
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a word derived from
impure.
Example Sentences
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From John Clare to George Gordon Noel, Lord Byron, is a far cry; the former being purely a small pastoral poet, the latter impurely a great genius.
From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by H. G. Somerville
The enemy overcame him by appealing to Badawin, who spoke impurely, whereupon Sibawayh left the court, retired to Khorasan and died, it is said of a broken heart.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 07 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Why should a man write impurely for writing much?
From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
The renunciations of marriage are like white lilies—bloodless, impurely pure, as anæmic as the soul of a virgin, as cold as the face of a corpse.
From The Green Carnation by Robert Smythe Hichens
Your paints will always be more or less impurely primary.
From The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst
