Definitions for unclean

unclean un·clean

Spelling: [uhn-kleen]
IPA: /ʌnˈklin/

Unclean is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 121 anagrams from letters in unclean (acelnnu).

Definitions for unclean

adjective

  1. not clean; dirty.
  2. morally impure; evil; vile:
  3. Chiefly Biblical. having a physical or moral blemish so as to make impure according to the laws, especially the dietary or ceremonial laws:

Origin of unclean

before 900; Middle English unclene, Old English unclǣne. See un-1, clean

Examples for unclean

That eater of swine aimed a blow at my face with his unclean fist.

Woe betide—but, was there ever such a gathering of unclean, unholy humanity?

You shake your heads; then why do you stare at me as though I were a thing accursed and unclean?

She was regarded as some unclean animal that battened upon corruption.

The taunt hurt him, too, like unclean words from lips beloved.

The false cannot inherit the true nor the unclean the lovely.

But a pig is only the unclean animal—the forbidden of the prophet.

It was very ugly, but very big, and the streets in front of it were narrow and unclean.

He must stand aloof, crying "unclean" in his soul if not with his voice.

First, religious texts condemn them as unclean, plus the love Westerners shower on pets made them inherently suspect.

Word Value for unclean
Scrable

9

Words with friends

14

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