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
Of course, eating with one’s hands isn’t some careless or unclean impulse — it’s a practiced tradition that spans continents, centuries and entire systems of thought.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2025
If you come to a court with unclean hands, you forfeit your right to claim this kind of emergency relief.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2025
Between meals he stored these green seedpods in damp, unclean Ziploc bags—an excellent culture for the proliferation of mold.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
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
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
Of all the unclean ones, Hamlet was the uncleanest.
From Twilight in Italy by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
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
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
