unclean

Fragrance and stench became shorthand for clean and unclean, respectable and disreputable, “us” and “them.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

A longstanding taboo in Chinese culture against used goods, seen as unclean or a shameful sign of poverty, is lifting rapidly.

From Barron's ● Mar. 4, 2026

Sick dogs can easily be reinfected by grooming themselves and living in an unclean environment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026

She is now living in temporary shelter where food is scarce and water unclean.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2025

The hole below was filled with a sludge of soiled water and worse, all the useless and unclean bits discarded during the slaughtering process.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

In that short space of time he discovered that the galley was the dirtiest hole under the sun and the cook the uncleanest person that ever handled food.

From The Skipper's Wooing, and The Brown Man's Servant by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

There is little doubt but that milk is one of the uncleanest and impurest of all foods.

From No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes by Rupert H. Wheldon

He was a guileless and indeed a holy man; and it's always the guileless and the holy people who raise the uncleanest scandals.

From The Belfry by May Sinclair

Of all the unclean ones, Hamlet was the uncleanest.

From Twilight in Italy by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Be not the emptiest meetest to receive gifts, and the uncleanest they that have most need of washing?”

From The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time by Emily Sarah Holt