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Another word for unclean

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Adjective

  1. Covered or stained with or as if with dirt or other impurities

    See also:

    clean

  2. Not chaste or moral

    See also:

    sex

    restraint

    good

  3. Ceremonially or religiously unfit

    See also:

    sacred

    religion

    clean

© Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Another word for unclean

Modifier
  1. See also:

    impure

    dirty

    Antonyms:
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Sentence Examples

  • Carmen let loose of his waist, moving away from the unclean thought.

  • 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.

  • It usually involves a man or woman visiting a place that is particularly unclean.

  • 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.

  • In the 3rd century this love of mystification reached the pitch of hiding even the gospels from the unclean eyes of pagans.

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