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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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
Why should a man write impurely for writing much?
From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote
The aesthetic significance of form is feebly and impurely felt, the power of creating it is lost almost; but finer descriptions have rarely been painted.
From Art by Clive Bell
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
They unanimously answered, "We desire to die purely with our lord, rather than to live impurely with you."
From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric
