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adjective

Unclean adj.

Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy.

Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing. "He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days."

Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of inordinate and unclean affections."

Unclean animals (Script.), those which the Israelites were forbidden to use for food.

Unclean spirit (Script.), a wicked spirit; a demon.

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Etymology of 'Unclean'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Unclean" Quotes from Famous Books

... doesn't hesitate to sit down in those dreadful hovels, and take those unclean babies in her arms. It has made me frightfully nervous since we came here. Gerald is ...

— A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill • Alice Hegan Rice

... and words and works are crowded together; the din of covetousness and worldliness is loud and constant, and will ill abide the day of his coming, who will, a second time, cast out of his temple all that is unclean. And is there not also in us that evil heart of unbelief and disobedience which departs from the living God? are there not here those who are becoming daily hardened through the deceitfulness of sin? How are ...

— The Christian Life - Its Course, Its Hindrances, And Its Helps • Thomas Arnold

... were the rule at his headquarters, but if any of his staff chose to remain absent, the general made no remark. Yet all suspicion of indifference to vice was effectually removed. Nothing ungenerous or unclean was said in his presence without incurring his displeasure, always unmistakably expressed, and although he made no parade of his piety he was far too manly to ...

— Stonewall Jackson And The American Civil War • G. F. R. Henderson

... The foreign girl fills in her time bricklaying and grooming down the horses. It is a young and charming lady who serves you when you enter the tobacconist's. She doesn't understand tobacco, is unsympathetic; with Mr. Frederic Harrison, regards smoking as a degrading and unclean habit; cannot see, herself, any difference between shag and Mayblossom, seeing that they are both the same price; thinks you fussy. The corset shop is run by a most presentable young man in a Vandyck beard. The wife runs the restaurant; the man does ...

— The Angel and the Author - and Others • Jerome K. Jerome

... one scene, Like Noah's ark, the clean and the unclean; For now, alas! the drench has credit got, And he's no gentleman who drinks it not. That such a dwarf should rise to such a stature! But custom is but ...

— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. II (of 3) - Edited, With Memoir And Notes, By His Son, The Earl Of Beaconsfield • Isaac D'Israeli

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