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单词 unclean
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Definition of unclean in English:

unclean

adjective ʌnˈkliːnˌənˈklin
  • 1Dirty.

    the firm was fined for operating in unclean premises
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's because of you that we are pegged as being unclean, dirty or unhealthy.
    • As they land on Earth, the visitors are greeted by unclean premises and atmospheric pollution.
    • I agree that smoking is not a good thing to do, but I defend the smoker's right not to be vilified and told they are dirty, smelly, unclean and all the other accusations thrown their way.
    • Nova and his mother walked to the front door, passing a poorly manicured lawn and rang the faint doorbell on the dirty and unclean porch having fast food takeout bags in their hands.
    • In 1868, he visited Brown's Flat near Yosemite's Merced River, where he encountered a group of Indians denigrated as Diggers whom he found dirty and unclean.
    • Some of the general measures include: avoiding unclean food and water, washing hands thoroughly after using the toilet or contact with body fluids.
    • A Swindon kebab house boss has admitted that his premises were unclean, had inadequate hand washing facilities and that his workers were not trained in food hygiene.
    • Given the fact that many Irish people are infrequent users of shower or bath, there are grounds for fearing that an unclean security area can become a breeding ground for nasty microbes.
    • Being unclean or dirty does not cause infection.
    • During the same period that John Muir was describing Indians as dirty and unclean, cities were perceived as dirty and polluted.
    • The water supply is unclean, the food inadequate, the sanitation non-existent, and prisoners are exposed to the winter cold.
    • The district office complex of Sirsa is no different from most others in the country - dusty, disorderly, crowded and unclean.
    • If somebody is lying in a hospital, they are dying because of dirty water and unclean water, and we've got to solve the problem of clean water; otherwise, people are going to die.
    • You do not get lice because you are dirty or unclean.
    • On March 2, over 100 nurses, kitchen staff and theatre technicians walked off the job at Box Hill Hospital in Melbourne, Victoria, to protest against unhygienic and unclean conditions.
    • If I drink ground water from the well in my house, it tastes brackish and salty, while the tap water is always unclean and unhealthy.
    • For example, why should our cities and villages be so unclean and unhygienic?
    • Vibrio parahaemolyticus can be present in raw or undercooked seafoods while Salmonella and Staphylococcus aureus are usually associated with foods contaminated by animal feces and the consumption of raw meat and unclean eggs.
    • A diversified diet with a lot of vegetables, and avoiding unclean food as roundworms may also cause gallbladder disease, will help prevent stones.
    • Recently, the newspaper La Repubblica carried an article wondering why the British food supply was so unclean and unsafe.
    Synonyms
    dirty, filthy, grubby, grimy, mucky, fouled, foul, impure, adulterated, tainted, tarnished, stained, soiled, begrimed, smeared, unwashed
    dusty, sooty, muddy, scummy
    polluted, contaminated, infected, insanitary, unhygienic, unhealthy, germ-ridden, germy, disease-ridden, septic
    informal yucky, cruddy, icky
    British informal manky, grotty, gungy
    Australian/New Zealand informal scungy
    archaic uncleanly
    literary besmirched
    rare feculent
  • 2Morally wrong.

    unclean thoughts
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The outraged cleric fumed: ‘All that goes for an unclean and unhealthy life.’
    • Michael McDowell objects, as it will interfere with his plan to intern the hard-left and anyone morally unclean.
    • When I view La Belle Noiseuse, a movie which features more than 90 minutes of a naked Emmanuelle Beart, my thoughts are not impure or unclean.
    • I was not allowing him to be on for the last 20 minutes, letting unclean mouths shout filthy chants at him.
    • I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips.
    • Isaiah was a man of unclean lips who prophesied the birth of Christ.
    • It is common to hear Christians describe homosexuality as abhorrent, depraved, abominable, dirty and unclean, and refer to homosexuals as disgusting.
    1. 2.1 (of food) regarded in a particular religion as impure and unfit to be eaten.
      both religions regard pork as unclean
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Christian fasting and abstinence did not, of course, spring from a ritual distinction between clean and unclean meats, but it was just as deeply embedded in theological conviction as the older dispensation.
      • Controversy was sparked after it was suggested by a Derby City Council committee that the statue should be put elsewhere for fear of upsetting Muslims, who regard pigs as unclean.
      • As the conflict worsened, Jews were forced-under pain of death-to pay homage to Zeus, to eat unclean foods, and even to renounce Yahweh as their God.
      • Anomalous creatures were abominated as unclean and were forbidden for food.
      • Peter understands the church's squeamishness about eating unclean foods and staying in a nonkosher home; Peter had gulped a little himself.
      • Answering the accusations of some incensed Pharisees, Jesus told his disciples that it is not any food that we consume that makes us unclean in God's eyes.
      • Pigs are regarded as unclean animals in my religion and I couldn't possibly share a room with it.
      • Not a place of honour or usefulness - the book of Leviticus advises Jews that the pig, even though it has divided hoofs and is cleft-footed, it does not chew the cud; and therefore it is unclean.
      • Along with their involved list of unclean foods they were forbidden to eat, some Jews also had elaborate rituals of hand washing before meals.
      • Three local councils had banned the sale of pork declaring the meat was unclean and most certainly not kosher.
      • According to the Koran, pork is unclean and forbidden.
      • He was a specialist butcher who sold halal meat and apparently customers of that meat prefer male to female meat, because they consider the female meat to be possibly unclean.
      • And the rock badger, because he chews the cud, but does not divide the hoof; he is unclean to you.
      • Peter says, ‘No Lord, no, I cannot eat these forbidden foods, I have never eaten any unclean thing.’
      • We need not worry about such things as ceremonial washings and clean and unclean foods.
      • The Bible in Deuteronomy 14: 3 prohibits eating all abhorrent and unclean things and according to the encyclopedia Judaica, the Bible totally prohibits consumption of blood.
      • Foods that are unclean and disgusting, such as the meat of an animal that died of disease, are not Kosher.
      • Foods are clean and unclean as well as nutritious and non-nutritious.
      • On the other hand, the Mosaic health laws stressed prevention more than treatment with their clean and unclean foods, emphasis on sanitation, and rules of quarantine.
      • Religious texts and law books are modified to describe cow eating as unclean, and beef as well as other meat begins to disappear from the menus for Brahmins and the upper classes.
    2. 2.2 (in biblical use) ritually impure; (of a spirit) evil.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He equipped them with authority over ‘the unclean spirits’ but no ‘authority’ over their human audience.
      • These evil spirits made people ritually unclean and the unclean could not share in corporate worship.
      • This man was ill, ritually unclean, unkempt, probably physically repulsive, an outcast from society, and unqualified to approach God at the temple, but Jesus felt compassion.
      • Jesus also gave His disciples authority over unclean spirits.
      • He scatters unclean spirits and restores people to community.
      • For He had been saying to him, ‘Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!’
      • Through spiritual pronouncements based on racialized sexual differences, black bodies are frequently seen and experienced as the unholy, unclean incarnation of evil in America.
      • The demons who follow Satan share these titles with him as enemies, foul spirits, lying spirits, tempters, and unclean spirits.
      • The unclean spirit shouting out to Jesus represents both a verbal challenge and the demon's enmity toward him.
      • In Mark 1: 23-24 the Bible says the man had an unclean spirit, as if in the singular.
      • In Mark 5 we read the story of the man with an unclean spirit who lived in the country of the Gerasenes.
      • For some Muslim men, contact with a menstruating renders them ritually unclean and thus unfit to pray.
      • That means that in the tradition before Mark there was only the purpose of casting out unclean spirits.
      • Let us remember, however, the words of Jesus ‘When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none.’
      • She refused tinned sardines for lunch because by eating them she would make herself unclean and thus unfit to visit the temple for the next twenty-four hours.
      • In the New Testament, it is striking how those with an unclean spirit were able to recognise our Lord.
      • There is the convulsed boy foaming at the mouth and the man emerging from the tombs with an unclean spirit.
      • Instead, he demonstrates Jesus' authority by describing the deliverance of a man with an unclean spirit.
      • When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
      • Jesus' rebukes are reserved for the so-called demons or unclean spirits by which some are possessed.
      Synonyms
      sinful, immoral, bad, wicked, evil, corrupt, impure, sullied, unwholesome, sordid, disgusting, debased, degenerate, depraved, licentious, lewd, unchaste, lustful
      archaic uncleanly
      impure
      forbidden

Derivatives

  • uncleanness

  • noun ʌnˈkliːnnəsˌənˈklinnəs
    • They destroy the altars, after having defiled them with their uncleanness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • And it is not for a soul to believe except by Allah's permission and He casts uncleanness (of unbelief) on those who will not understand.
      • The concern was about impurity, pollution, uncleanness.
      • When it is symbolic, the insects often represent filth and uncleanness.
      • If your record be never so bad and your past never so black, I will forgive all manner of sin and uncleanness, provided you come to me.

Origin

Old English unclǣne (see un-1, clean).

 
 

Definition of unclean in US English:

unclean

adjectiveˌənˈklēnˌənˈklin
  • 1Dirty.

    the company was fined for operating in unclean premises
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I agree that smoking is not a good thing to do, but I defend the smoker's right not to be vilified and told they are dirty, smelly, unclean and all the other accusations thrown their way.
    • You do not get lice because you are dirty or unclean.
    • A Swindon kebab house boss has admitted that his premises were unclean, had inadequate hand washing facilities and that his workers were not trained in food hygiene.
    • For example, why should our cities and villages be so unclean and unhygienic?
    • Some of the general measures include: avoiding unclean food and water, washing hands thoroughly after using the toilet or contact with body fluids.
    • Nova and his mother walked to the front door, passing a poorly manicured lawn and rang the faint doorbell on the dirty and unclean porch having fast food takeout bags in their hands.
    • Vibrio parahaemolyticus can be present in raw or undercooked seafoods while Salmonella and Staphylococcus aureus are usually associated with foods contaminated by animal feces and the consumption of raw meat and unclean eggs.
    • In 1868, he visited Brown's Flat near Yosemite's Merced River, where he encountered a group of Indians denigrated as Diggers whom he found dirty and unclean.
    • The district office complex of Sirsa is no different from most others in the country - dusty, disorderly, crowded and unclean.
    • If somebody is lying in a hospital, they are dying because of dirty water and unclean water, and we've got to solve the problem of clean water; otherwise, people are going to die.
    • If I drink ground water from the well in my house, it tastes brackish and salty, while the tap water is always unclean and unhealthy.
    • The water supply is unclean, the food inadequate, the sanitation non-existent, and prisoners are exposed to the winter cold.
    • Being unclean or dirty does not cause infection.
    • A diversified diet with a lot of vegetables, and avoiding unclean food as roundworms may also cause gallbladder disease, will help prevent stones.
    • Given the fact that many Irish people are infrequent users of shower or bath, there are grounds for fearing that an unclean security area can become a breeding ground for nasty microbes.
    • It's because of you that we are pegged as being unclean, dirty or unhealthy.
    • On March 2, over 100 nurses, kitchen staff and theatre technicians walked off the job at Box Hill Hospital in Melbourne, Victoria, to protest against unhygienic and unclean conditions.
    • During the same period that John Muir was describing Indians as dirty and unclean, cities were perceived as dirty and polluted.
    • As they land on Earth, the visitors are greeted by unclean premises and atmospheric pollution.
    • Recently, the newspaper La Repubblica carried an article wondering why the British food supply was so unclean and unsafe.
    Synonyms
    dirty, filthy, grubby, grimy, mucky, fouled, foul, impure, adulterated, tainted, tarnished, stained, soiled, begrimed, smeared, unwashed
    1. 1.1 Morally wrong.
      unclean thoughts
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Isaiah was a man of unclean lips who prophesied the birth of Christ.
      • I was not allowing him to be on for the last 20 minutes, letting unclean mouths shout filthy chants at him.
      • The outraged cleric fumed: ‘All that goes for an unclean and unhealthy life.’
      • When I view La Belle Noiseuse, a movie which features more than 90 minutes of a naked Emmanuelle Beart, my thoughts are not impure or unclean.
      • I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips.
      • It is common to hear Christians describe homosexuality as abhorrent, depraved, abominable, dirty and unclean, and refer to homosexuals as disgusting.
      • Michael McDowell objects, as it will interfere with his plan to intern the hard-left and anyone morally unclean.
    2. 1.2 (of food) regarded in a particular religion as impure and unfit to be eaten.
      pork is an unclean meat for Muslims
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Foods that are unclean and disgusting, such as the meat of an animal that died of disease, are not Kosher.
      • As the conflict worsened, Jews were forced-under pain of death-to pay homage to Zeus, to eat unclean foods, and even to renounce Yahweh as their God.
      • And the rock badger, because he chews the cud, but does not divide the hoof; he is unclean to you.
      • Foods are clean and unclean as well as nutritious and non-nutritious.
      • He was a specialist butcher who sold halal meat and apparently customers of that meat prefer male to female meat, because they consider the female meat to be possibly unclean.
      • Not a place of honour or usefulness - the book of Leviticus advises Jews that the pig, even though it has divided hoofs and is cleft-footed, it does not chew the cud; and therefore it is unclean.
      • On the other hand, the Mosaic health laws stressed prevention more than treatment with their clean and unclean foods, emphasis on sanitation, and rules of quarantine.
      • Answering the accusations of some incensed Pharisees, Jesus told his disciples that it is not any food that we consume that makes us unclean in God's eyes.
      • Three local councils had banned the sale of pork declaring the meat was unclean and most certainly not kosher.
      • We need not worry about such things as ceremonial washings and clean and unclean foods.
      • Controversy was sparked after it was suggested by a Derby City Council committee that the statue should be put elsewhere for fear of upsetting Muslims, who regard pigs as unclean.
      • Peter says, ‘No Lord, no, I cannot eat these forbidden foods, I have never eaten any unclean thing.’
      • Along with their involved list of unclean foods they were forbidden to eat, some Jews also had elaborate rituals of hand washing before meals.
      • Religious texts and law books are modified to describe cow eating as unclean, and beef as well as other meat begins to disappear from the menus for Brahmins and the upper classes.
      • Anomalous creatures were abominated as unclean and were forbidden for food.
      • According to the Koran, pork is unclean and forbidden.
      • The Bible in Deuteronomy 14: 3 prohibits eating all abhorrent and unclean things and according to the encyclopedia Judaica, the Bible totally prohibits consumption of blood.
      • Peter understands the church's squeamishness about eating unclean foods and staying in a nonkosher home; Peter had gulped a little himself.
      • Pigs are regarded as unclean animals in my religion and I couldn't possibly share a room with it.
      • Christian fasting and abstinence did not, of course, spring from a ritual distinction between clean and unclean meats, but it was just as deeply embedded in theological conviction as the older dispensation.
    3. 1.3 (in biblical use) ritually impure; (of a spirit) evil.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • These evil spirits made people ritually unclean and the unclean could not share in corporate worship.
      • The demons who follow Satan share these titles with him as enemies, foul spirits, lying spirits, tempters, and unclean spirits.
      • This man was ill, ritually unclean, unkempt, probably physically repulsive, an outcast from society, and unqualified to approach God at the temple, but Jesus felt compassion.
      • When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none.
      • In the New Testament, it is striking how those with an unclean spirit were able to recognise our Lord.
      • Let us remember, however, the words of Jesus ‘When an unclean spirit goes out of a man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and finds none.’
      • Jesus' rebukes are reserved for the so-called demons or unclean spirits by which some are possessed.
      • There is the convulsed boy foaming at the mouth and the man emerging from the tombs with an unclean spirit.
      • He scatters unclean spirits and restores people to community.
      • Jesus also gave His disciples authority over unclean spirits.
      • Through spiritual pronouncements based on racialized sexual differences, black bodies are frequently seen and experienced as the unholy, unclean incarnation of evil in America.
      • That means that in the tradition before Mark there was only the purpose of casting out unclean spirits.
      • In Mark 5 we read the story of the man with an unclean spirit who lived in the country of the Gerasenes.
      • For some Muslim men, contact with a menstruating renders them ritually unclean and thus unfit to pray.
      • He equipped them with authority over ‘the unclean spirits’ but no ‘authority’ over their human audience.
      • In Mark 1: 23-24 the Bible says the man had an unclean spirit, as if in the singular.
      • She refused tinned sardines for lunch because by eating them she would make herself unclean and thus unfit to visit the temple for the next twenty-four hours.
      • For He had been saying to him, ‘Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!’
      • Instead, he demonstrates Jesus' authority by describing the deliverance of a man with an unclean spirit.
      • The unclean spirit shouting out to Jesus represents both a verbal challenge and the demon's enmity toward him.
      Synonyms
      sinful, immoral, bad, wicked, evil, corrupt, impure, sullied, unwholesome, sordid, disgusting, debased, degenerate, depraved, licentious, lewd, unchaste, lustful
      impure

Origin

Old English unclǣne (see un-, clean).

 
 
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