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unclean
adjective
1 unclean
Soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime:
— Wore an unclean shirt.
synonyms: dirty, soiled.
Roget 653:
dirty,
filthy,
grimy;
unclean,
impure;
soiled
etc.
v.;
not to be handled with kid gloves;
dusty,
snuffy†,
smutty,
sooty,
smoky;
thick,
turbid,
dreggy;
slimy;
mussy [U.S.].
slovenly,
untidy,
messy,
uncleanly.
[of people]
unkempt,
sluttish,
dowdy,
draggle-tailed;
uncombed.
unscoured†,
unswept†,
unwiped†,
unwashed,
unstrained,
unpurified†;
squalid;
lutose†,
slammocky†,
slummocky†,
sozzly†.
nasty,
coarse,
foul,
offensive,
abominable,
beastly,
reeky,
reechy†;
fetid
etc.
401.
[of rotting living matter]
decayed,
moldy,
musty,
mildewed,
rusty,
moth-eaten,
mucid†,
rancid,
weak,
bad,
gone bad,
etercoral†,
lentiginous†,
touched,
fusty,
effete,
reasty†,
rotten,
corrupt,
tainted,
high,
flyblown,
maggoty;
putrid,
putrefactive,
putrescent,
putrefied;
saprogenic,
saprogenous†;
purulent,
carious,
peccant;
fecal,
feculent;
stercoraceous†,
excrementitious†;
scurfy,
scurvy,
impetiginous†;
gory,
bloody;
rotting
etc.
v.;
rotten as a pear,
rotten as cheese.
crapulous
etc.
(intemperate)
954†;
gross
etc.
(impure in mind)
961;
fimetarious†,
fimicolous†.
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Dutch: besmeurd
Polish: brudny, zabrudzony
2 unclean
Having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to dietary or ceremonial laws:
— Unclean meat.
— And the swine...is unclean to you.
synonym: impure.
Roget 961:
impure;
unclean
etc.
(dirty)
653;
not to be mentioned to ears polite;
immodest,
shameless;
indecorous,
indelicate,
indecent;
Fescennine;
loose,
risque [Fr.],
coarse,
gross,
broad,
free,
equivocal,
smutty,
fulsome,
ribald,
obscene,
bawdy,
pornographic.
concupiscent,
prurient,
lickerish†,
rampant,
lustful;
carnal,
carnal-minded;
lewd,
lascivious,
lecherous,
libidinous,
erotic,
ruttish,
salacious;
Paphian;
voluptuous;
goatish,
must,
musty.
unchaste,
light,
wanton,
licentious,
debauched,
dissolute;
of loose character,
of easy virtue;
frail,
gay,
riggish†,
incontinent,
meretricious,
rakish,
gallant,
dissipated;
no better than she should be;
on the town,
on the streets,
on the pave,
on the loose.
adulterous,
incestuous,
bestial.
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