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unclean
adjective as in dirty
Weak matches
- bedraggled
- befouled
- besmirched
- blurred
- common
- contaminated
- corrupt
- decayed
- defiled
- desecrated
- dusty
- evil
- feculent
- fetid
- filthy
- foul
- grimy
- messy
- muddy
- nasty
- polluted
- profaned
- putrescent
- putrid
- rancid
- rank
- rotten
- sloppy
- slovenly
- smeared
- smudged
- sooty
- sordid
- spotted
- squalid
- stable
- stained
- stale
- stinking
- sullied
- tainted
- tarnished
- unhealthful
- vile
Example Sentences
Disgust is a strong feeling of revulsion in response to objects perceived to be contaminating, polluting or unclean.
Theda Skocpol, a Harvard University sociologist and political scientist who authored "The Missing Middle," told Salon when asked about the comparisons to Hitler that "there are resemblances, especially when demonization happens. Or calling groups enemies or unclean."
Even though the monks called me an unclean pig of a dog, and though my new master was clearly a blasphemer, and though I did not like any of the lives I had been given, I prayed that someday I could pay back Samir, the Seller of Dreams, and purchase my freedom.
Unclean costumes are a perennial problem, and it was a top reason for the Florida performers wanting to organize with the Teamsters in the early 1980s.
“Your policy is dumb,” Farr recalled telling the school, which argued in its response to his lawsuit that his daughter was eating lunch in the girls’ restroom and had unclean hands.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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