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Meanings of unclean in English
Synonyms
Examples for "dirty"
Examples for "dirty"
1
Use this form as a quick-and-dirty way to create a new file.
2
He stammered; his mouth wobbled; he covered it with a dirty hand.
3
I looked at the letter; it was very dirty, and I said:
4
The stocks of many of the rifles were wrapped in dirty rags.
5
Some of them are dirty in their persons and in their habits.
1
Yet-andthis was perhaps the most important thing-sheno longer felt soiled.
2
These central houses are not soiled by the touch of actual merchandise.
3
One was in soiled every-day clothes, the other in immaculate evening dress.
4
The rain, which in former days soiled the sewer, now washes it.
5
Soak the soiled ticks in cold water immediately to remove remaining feathers.
Usage of unclean in English
1
Each year, millions of people acquire this infection by drinking unclean water.
2
The behaviour of that unclean white madman is furious in the extreme.
3
Another source of colic in the breast-fed baby is the unclean nipple.
4
But a pig is only the unclean animal-theforbidden of the prophet.
5
Mustn't allow the unclean rise of emotion get the better of him.
6
It has apparently been taken for granted that the cat was unclean.
7
The unclean Jewess dwells here, who stops the rise of the Nile.
8
I saw an unclean-feeder by the banks of the river of Time.
9
Early Christian attitude toward woman as unclean and in league with demons.
10
He looked around at all the evidences of unclean and sordid life.
11
For he commanded the unclean spirit to go out of the man.
12
And in their synagogue there was a man with an unclean spirit.
13
He was a dirty man in an unclean shirt and unkempt trousers.
14
Clean or unclean, I would rather not have her in my room.
15
An unclean beard grew out of the caverns of his sunburnt cheeks.
16
He even commands with authority the unclean spirits and they obey Him.
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Unclean through the time
Unclean across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common