nonkosher
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a word derived from
kosher.
kosher
Example Sentences
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The dish appears in the same chapter as nonkosher oysters and lobster.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Their nonkosher Jewish family talked avidly of food and cooking.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023
On the coffee table were two pizzas, one kosher, one nonkosher.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2017
“As a general principle, something derived from a nonkosher animal is not kosher,” says Rabbi Menachem Genack, head of the Orthodox Union’s Kosher Division.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2014
Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz tells in Making It how a high school teacher once insisted on taking him to a nonkosher restaurant—and he was so revolted that he could not eat.
From Time Magazine Archive
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