unclean
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To be clear, the movie wasn’t what it claimed to be, but a bizarre blend of staged scenes and found footage, which only heightened its notoriety as an unclean object.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2026
A longstanding taboo in Chinese culture against used goods, seen as unclean or a shameful sign of poverty, is lifting rapidly.
From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026
If that makes you a little sick, if the whole thing feels a little unclean, that’s only because the internet has become a nauseous, infested place.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2025
The animal charity said the dogs were kept in unclean and overcrowded conditions, with little access to fresh water.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2025
I felt that I had done something unclean, something for which I could never properly atone.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
There is little doubt but that milk is one of the uncleanest and impurest of all foods.
From No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes by Rupert H. Wheldon
Be not the emptiest meetest to receive gifts, and the uncleanest they that have most need of washing?”
From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt
He was a guileless and indeed a holy man; and it's always the guileless and the holy people who raise the uncleanest scandals.
From The Belfry by May Sinclair
Of all the unclean ones, Hamlet was the uncleanest.
From Twilight in Italy by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
In that short space of time he discovered that the galley was the dirtiest hole under the sun and the cook the uncleanest person that ever handled food.
From The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs
