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Another word for unclean

unclean Synonyms

unclean

modif.

soiled, sullied, stained, spotted, filthy, bedraggled, smeared, befouled, nasty, grimy, polluted, rank, unhealthful, defiled, impure, nonkosher, muddy, fetid, feculent, stinking, rotten, vile, decayed, contaminated, tainted, rancid, putrid, putrescent, moldy, musty, mildewed, besmirched, smirched, besmutted, smutted, besmuttered, besmeared, filmed over, bleary, dusty, sooty, smudgy, draffy, scurvy, scurfy, clogged, slimy, mucky, tarnished, murky, smudged, daubed, blurred, begrimed, spattered, bespattered, maggotty, flyblown; see also dirty 1, impure 1.

Antonyms pure*, clean, white.

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Another word for unclean

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Covered or stained with or as if with dirt or other impurities:
black, dirty, filthy, grimy, grubby, smutty, soiled, uncleanly. See clean
Not chaste or moral:
immoral, impure, unchaste, uncleanly. See good, restraint, sex
Ceremonially or religiously unfit:
impure. See clean, religion, sacred

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Jews will wash their hands before leaving a cemetery, as it is considered unclean to be around a dead body.
It usually involves a man or woman visiting a place that is particularly unclean.
If you receive a body piercing in an unclean environment with equipment that is not properly sterilized, you take the risk of contracting a potentially life threatening disease.
He is specially chosen for good character, and Azan must not be recited by any one unclean, by a drunkard, by the insane, or by a woman.
An unclean person is universally a slothful one, one who sits by a stove, whom the sun shines on prostrate, who reposes without being fatigued.

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