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When Devi asks another Dalit family why their home is so far outside the main village, they say it’s because other communities consider them impure.

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They wanted to expel the demons which they believed caused impure thoughts.

You feel guilty if you eat foods you believe to be “impure.”

Much of this has been pure, or more accurately, impure, political theater.

But really, how impure is the desire to garner professional respect and reap enough cash to pay rent and keep making work?

The “bootleg chemistry” results in a drug that is notoriously impure and often contains a lethal mix of toxins.

If it had not been for the high, dome-shaped roof, the air would have grown heavy and impure.

No, he will doubtless go to some friend who he thinks will tell him, and thus get his young mind tainted with impure thoughts.

Astonishment and curiosity calmed for a moment the impure ardor of the Crusaders.

It gave a bluish-black color with impure ferrous sulphate and a dark color with ferric chloride.

All appeared to be impure gallic acid which had become brown by absorption of oxygen.

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

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