unclean
IPA: ʌnkɫˈin
adjective
- Dirty, soiled or foul.
- Not moral or chaste.
- Ritually or ceremonially impure or unfit.
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Examples of "unclean" in Sentences
- So sinful actions are always unclean, that is, not in accordance with God's design.
- The unclean were the leprosy, issues, &c.; not unclean, were such as this woman's infirmity, &c.
- Pope Benedict speaks of lepers - the "unclean" - and points out that leprosy can be a symbol for sin.
- There's a doctrine in law called unclean hands, which means you can't benefit from your own wrongdoing.
- I also find Karzai not to my liking, infected with a foreign education and with relatives living in unclean places.
- Peter understandably refuses to eat such unclean things, only to be told by the heavenly voice that he should not call unclean what God has cleansed.
- Pork is described as "unclean" and therefore unfit for human consumption along with other types of meat, such as carrion, the carcass of dead animals Chapter 6, Verse 145.
- That is, 'over, or upon unclean spirits': which therefore are called unclean spirits that by a clearer antithesis they might be opposed to the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of purity.
- Oh, my friends, let us pray that we may love God better, and know His likeness more clearly; that we may be more ready to recognise, and admire, and welcome every, even the smallest trace of that likeness in any human being, remembering that it is the likeness of Christ, who was not merely The Teacher of all in every nation who fear God and work righteousness, but the Saviour who ate and drank with publicans and sinners: and then we shall be more careful how we call unclean what God Himself has cleansed with
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