unwashed
Example Sentences
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Door handles, faucet knobs, and flush levers tend to be more contaminated because they are frequently touched, often with unwashed hands.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 13, 2026
The patrons pause scrolling to glance at this unhinged, unwashed man wearing a crown of computer wires wrapped around his head like an IT messiah.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026
Modi, as the Italian was affectionately called, was urbane, well-groomed and handsome, while Soutine was destitute, sickly and notoriously unwashed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
Clothes go unwashed and families can’t bathe their children properly, meaning skin diseases and diarrhoea are widespread.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2024
They don't realize that floating in the air on dust particles, lurking on fingertips, or growing on the shiny steel blades of their unwashed surgical scalpels are single-celled bacteria and other microscopic life forms.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
