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unclean

[uhn-kleen] / ʌnˈklin /


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"You go home feeling eternally unclean, like no shower makes you feel any better," she says.

From BBC Apr. 30, 2026

To be clear, the movie wasn’t what it claimed to be, but a bizarre blend of staged scenes and found footage, which only heightened its notoriety as an unclean object.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 31, 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

Of course, eating with one’s hands isn’t some careless or unclean impulse — it’s a practiced tradition that spans continents, centuries and entire systems of thought.

From Salon Jul. 3, 2025

Between meals he stored these green seedpods in damp, unclean Ziploc bags—an excellent culture for the proliferation of mold.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

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 Sinclair, May

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 Wheldon, Rupert H.

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 Holt, Emily Sarah

Of all the unclean ones, Hamlet was the uncleanest.

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

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 Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)




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