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unclean
adjective as in dirty
Weak matches
- bedraggled
- befouled
- besmirched
- blurred
- common
- contaminated
- corrupt
- decayed
- defiled
- desecrated
- dusty
- evil
- feculent
- fetid
- filthy
- foul
- grimy
- messy
- muddy
- nasty
- polluted
- profaned
- putrescent
- putrid
- rancid
- rank
- rotten
- sloppy
- slovenly
- smeared
- smudged
- sooty
- sordid
- spotted
- squalid
- stable
- stained
- stale
- stinking
- sullied
- tainted
- tarnished
- unhealthful
- vile
Example Sentences
Disgust is a strong feeling of revulsion in response to objects perceived to be contaminating, polluting or unclean.
“Your policy is dumb,” Farr recalled telling the school, which argued in its response to his lawsuit that his daughter was eating lunch in the girls’ restroom and had unclean hands.
Shortages of water lead to problems for agriculture and health implications as people are forced to use unclean sources, taking the time and energy of children to fetch water, affecting their education, he said.
It isn’t; it’s about hard, unclean choices in a winner-take-all system.
In the era of dynastic kingdoms, cows were used as a valuable form of agricultural labor rather than food, and pigs were seen as unclean.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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