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impurity

noun as in contaminant

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Example Sentences

It just recreates that whole dynamic that we had around the public option--liberal despair at Obama's impurity.

Rather it would be more accurate to describe such outcomes as “impurely political”—with the emphasis on impurity.

When parties lose power, activists ascribe the loss to the ideological impurity of their incumbent president.

Now Sestak is having success running from the left with the same charge of ideological impurity.

The principal impurity, and one which renders alum unfit for the use of the dyer, is iron.

Exemplify the sibilant impurity with such syllables as pish, false, traitress, miscreant.

I admired spotlessness, even though I could lay no claim to it, and hated impurity, as I hope I do now.

Is it not there that the evil spirits of impurity spread their nets for thoughtless and unsuspecting youth?

The court of Catharine de' Medici was noted for its impurity, as it was infamous for its recklessness of human life.

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On this page you'll find 52 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to impurity, such as: contamination, grime, pollutant, scum, adulteration, and corruption.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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