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
She toiled till the alarm abated, and aimed particularly to remove from the minds and dwellings of the people those fruitful feeders, if not sources, of the calamity,—superstition and uncleanness.
From Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. by Edward B. Hall
Simple habits kept his frame wiry, and a New England nurture saved his mind from luxuriant uncleanness.
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
But apparently to complete the type, the law gave to it the artificial contagion of ceremonial uncleanness, and banished the unhappy sufferer from the dwellings of men.
From The Gospel According to St. Mark by G. A. Chadwick
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
