Unclean
[ʌn'kliːn] or [,ʌn'klin]
Definition
(adj.) 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'-Leviticus 11:3 .
Checker: Susie--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy.
(a.) Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing.
(a.) Morally impure.
Typed by Blanche
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Foul, dirty, filthy, nasty, uncleanly.
Typist: Manfred
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Dirty, foul, filthy, sullied,[See CIVIL], ~_\a.\]
Editor: Sasha
Definition
adj. not clean: foul: (B.) ceremonially impure: sinful: lewd.—n. Unclean′liness.—adj. Unclean′ly.—n. Unclean′ness the state or quality of being unclean: dirtiness: (B.) want of ceremonial purity: moral impurity: sinfulness.
Checker: Patrice
Examples
- And again the woman anxiously and actively fingered the mattress and added up in her mind and bargained with the old, unclean man. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He felt as if some of the clay were sticking cold and unclean, on his heart. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- If this were to be the ruling of Providence, he was cast out from the temple as one who had brought unclean offerings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- To the Brahmin a cow is sacred; to the Moslem the pig is unclean. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- An unclean starveling wrapped a gaudy table-cloth about his loins, and hung a white rag over my shoulders. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- By talking together men would reinforce each other's fears, and establish a common tradition of tabus of things forbidden and of things unclean. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checker: Patrice