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unswept
adjective as in dirty
Strongest matches
adjective as in dusty
adjective as in uncleanly
Weak matches
- bedraggled
- begrimed
- contaminated
- cruddy
- crummy
- defiled
- disarrayed
- dishabille
- disheveled
- dreggy
- dungy
- dusty
- filthy
- foul
- fouled
- greasy
- grimy
- grubby
- grungy
- icky
- lousy
- messy
- mucky
- muddy
- murky
- nasty
- polluted
- raunchy
- scummy
- scuzzy
- slatternly
- slimy
- sloppy
- slovenly
- smudged
- smutty
- soiled
- sooty
- spattered
- spotted
- squalid
- stained
- straggly
- sullied
- unclean
- undusted
- unhygienic
- unkempt
- unlaundered
- unsanitary
- unsightly
- untidy
- unwashed
- yucky
Example Sentences
Local government housing programs get 70 percent of the unswept trust-fund revenue.
He didn’t even notice a tree in his office had died until unswept leaves got in his way.
Enabling this mess: Streets are unswept because people don’t want to have to move their cars from parking spots in order to allow sweeping to take place - like they do in other major cities.
He saw patients lying on unswept floors, often in pools of vomit and blood.
THE AD A Hispanic family smiles and shares a box of cereal around a table, but they quickly fade from the scene, leaving an unswept table and dirty dishes.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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