unwashed
Example Sentences
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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
Reading Borough Council inspectors also found light switches and taps were unwashed and blood-stained cardboard on the floor.
From BBC • May 10, 2025
One tip: Wash your greens and veggies and store them wet in their bags in the crisper drawer; keep your mushrooms and berries unwashed and dry in their bags until you use them.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2024
As such, it's best to store these unwashed in the fridge, only washing when you're ready to eat them.
From Salon • Aug. 12, 2024
To go down into the grave, unwashed, unforgiven, was to go down into the pit forever, where terrors awaited him greater than any the earth, for all her age and groaning, had ever borne.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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