uncleanly

IPA: ʌnkɫˈinɫi

adjective

  • Dirty, unhygienic, not clean.
  • Not pure in a moral or religious sense.

adverb

  • not in a clean way; in an unclean way
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Examples of "uncleanly" in Sentences

  • Learn of the wise, and perpend: civet is of a baser birth than tar, the very uncleanly flux of a cat.
  • Here, if you like, was a sanitary parable, addressed by our uncleanly forefathers to their own neglect.
  • Though the Greeks are an oppressed nation, yet, as Sir William Gell testifies, they cannot be called uncleanly in their habits.
  • You told me you salute not at the court, but you kiss your hands: that courtesy would be uncleanly, if courtiers were shepherds.
  • The session number is used to uniquely identify a user session in a given course, and provides a mean to detect if a given session finished uncleanly.
  • Im sure the peace corps medical office and my grandmothers would have some words for me on my uncleanly behavior, but there is no Lysol under my kitchen sink.
  • Some find the same fault in Spain, even in Madrid, the king's seat, a most excellent air, a pleasant site; but the inhabitants are slovens, and the streets uncleanly kept.
  • Jesus abstained from pork, because it is uncleanly, and from rabbit, because it ruminates and its foot is not cloven; we fearlessly eat pork, because it is not uncleanly for us, and we eat rabbit which has the cloven foot and does not ruminate.
  • His whole appearance had an air of even wilful slovenliness: His hair was uncombed; he was in boots, which were covered with mud; his coat seemed to have been designedly immersed in powder, and his universal negligence was not only shabby but uncleanly.

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