uncleanness

Roget category 653

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.2. Subservience to ends

#653. Uncleanness

noun

uncleanness etc. adj. — impurity — immundity^†, immundicity^† — impurity etc. 961 [of mind]. defilement, contamination etc. v. — defoedation^† — soilure^†, soiliness^† — abomination — leaven — taint, tainture^† — fetor etc. 401^†.
decay — putrescence, putrefaction — corruption — mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo^†.
slovenry^† — slovenliness etc. adj. — squalor.
dowdy, drab, slut, malkin^†, slattern, sloven, slammerkin^†, slammock^†, slummock^†, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark^†, dust-man, sweep — beast.
dirt, filth, soil, slop — dust, cobweb, flue — smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff^† — sossle^†, sozzle^†.
sordes^†, dregs, grounds, lees — argol^† — sediment, settlement heeltap^† — dross, drossiness^† — mother^†, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders.
recrement^†, slag — scum, froth.
hogwash — ditchwater^†, dishwater, bilgewater^† — rinsings, cheeseparings — sweepings etc. (useless refuse) 645 — offscourings^†, outscourings^† — off scum — caput mortuum [Lat.], residuum, sprue, fecula [Lat.], clinker, draff^† — scurf, scurfiness^† — exuviae [Lat.], morphea — fur, furfur^† — dandruff, tartar.
riffraff — vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch^†.
mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh [U.S.].
spawn, offal, gurry [U.S.] — lientery^† — garbage, carrion — excreta etc. 299 — slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria^† — faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap [Vulg.], shit [Vulg.] — sewage, sewerage — muck — coprolite — guano, manure, compost.
dunghill, colluvies^†, mixen^†, midden, bog, laystall^†, sink, privy, jakes — toilet, john, head — cess^†, cesspool — sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer — Cloacina — dust hole.
sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable^†, sink of corruption — slum, rookery.

verb

be unclean, become unclean etc. adj. — rot, putrefy, ferment, fester, rankle, reek — stink etc. 401 — mold, molder — go bad etc. adj.. render unclean etc. adj. — dirt, dirty — daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch^†, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear — smirch — begrease^† — dabble, drabble^†, draggle, daggle^† — spatter, slubber — besmear &c., bemire, beslime^†, begrime, befoul — splash, stain, distain^†, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven — corrupt etc. (injure) 659 — cover with dust etc. n. — drabble in the mud^† — roil.
wallow in the mire — slobber, slabber^†.

adjective

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^†.

phrase

they that touch pitch will be defiled" [Much Ado About Nothing].

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