unwashed

Example Sentences

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Modi, as the Italian was affectionately called, was urbane, well-groomed and handsome, while Soutine was destitute, sickly and notoriously unwashed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

“In addition, touching your eyes, nose, or mouth with unwashed hands after touching raw milk with bird flu virus may also lead to infection,” state officials said in a statement.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2024

Clothes go unwashed and families can’t bathe their children properly, meaning skin diseases and diarrhoea are widespread.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2024

This means as well as dirt, unwashed produce may contain a variety of potentially harmful matter – including bacteria, fungi, viruses and pesticides.

From Salon • Aug. 12, 2024

To go down into the grave, unwashed, unforgiven, was to go down into the pit forever, where terrors awaited him greater than any the earth, for all her age and groaning, had ever borne.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin