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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

The left hand, considered unclean, is reserved for personal hygiene.

From Salon Jul. 3, 2025

I picked it up with an unclean feeling, looked at the frilled paper.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison

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)

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)

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




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