unclean

unclean
    adj 1: soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty
           unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty
           slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on
           the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a
           dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her
           sisters preened themselves" [syn: {dirty}, {soiled},
           {unclean}] [ant: {clean}]
    2: 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 [syn:
       {unclean}, {impure}] [ant: {clean}]
    

Unclean \Un*clean"\ ([u^]n*kl[=e]n"), a. [AS. uncl[=ae]ne. See
   {Unnot}, and {Clean}.]
   1. Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy.
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   2. Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing.
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            He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be
            unclean seven days.                   --Num. xix.
                                                  11.
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   3. Morally impure. "Adultery of the heart, consisting of
      inordinate and unclean affections." --Perkins.
      [1913 Webster] -- {Un*clean"ly}, adv. -- {Un*clean"ness},
      n.
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   {Unclean animals} (Script.), those which the Israelites were
      forbidden to use for food.

   {Unclean spirit} (Script.), a wicked spirit; a demon. --Mark
      i. 27.
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146 Moby Thesaurus words for "unclean":
      Adamic, Fescennine, Rabelaisian, abominable, arrant, atrocious,
      awful, backsliding, base, bawdy, beastly, beneath contempt,
      besmirched, black, blameworthy, blue, brutal, carnal, common,
      contaminated, contemptible, corrupted, defiled, deplorable,
      despicable, detestable, dire, dirty, disgusting, dreadful,
      egregious, enormous, erring, fallen, fetid, filthy, flagrant,
      fleshly, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued, frail,
      fulsome, grievous, gross, grubby, hateful, heinous, horrible,
      horrid, immoral, impure, indecent, infamous, infected, infirm,
      ithyphallic, lamentable, lapsed, lewd, loathsome, lousy, lurid,
      maculate, monstrous, nasty, nefarious, noisome, nonkosher,
      notorious, obnoxious, obscene, odious, of easy virtue, offensive,
      outrageous, peccable, pitiable, pitiful, polluted, pornographic,
      postlapsarian, prodigal, rank, raunchy, recidivist, recidivistic,
      regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, ribald, ritually unclean,
      rotten, sad, salacious, scandalous, schlock, scurrile, scurrilous,
      scurvy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, smirched, smoking-room,
      smutty, soiled, soily, sordid, squalid, sullied, sultry, tainted,
      terrible, too bad, tref, unangelic, unbathed, unchaste, uncleanly,
      ungodly, ungood, unprintable, unpure, unrepeatable, unrighteous,
      unsaintly, unscoured, unscrubbed, unswept, unvirginal, unvirtuous,
      unwashed, unwiped, vile, villainous, virtueless, wanton, wayward,
      weak, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched