unclean
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Jewish immigrants from Central and Eastern Europe adapted the German Delikatessen model by removing pork and other unclean foods.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
"You go home feeling eternally unclean, like no shower makes you feel any better," she says.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 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
Sick dogs can easily be reinfected by grooming themselves and living in an unclean environment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
He was exhausted and covered with a damp, unclean sweat.
From "The Fighting Ground" by Avi
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
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
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
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