Roget's Thesaurus

#653. Uncleanness

Nouns

uncleanness etc. adj.; impurity; immundity, immundicity; impurity etc. 961 [of mind]. defilement, contamination etc. v.; defoedation; soilure, soiliness; abomination; leaven; taint, tainture; fetor etc. 401. decay; putrescence, putrefaction; corruption; mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo. slovenry; slovenliness etc. adj.; squalor. dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep; beast. dirt, filth, soil, slop; dust, cobweb, flue; smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff; sossle, sozzle. sordes, dregs, grounds, lees; argol; sediment, settlement, heeltap; dross, drossiness; mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders. recrement, slag; scum, froth. hogwash; ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater; rinsings, cheeseparings; sweepings etc. (useless refuse) 645; offscourings, outscourings; off scum; caput mortuum [Lat.], residuum, sprue, fecula [Lat.], clinker, draff; scurf, scurfiness; exuviae [Lat.], morphea; fur, furfur; dandruff, tartar. riffraff; vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch. mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh [U.S.]. spawn, offal, gurry [U.S.]; lientery; garbage, carrion; excreta etc. 299; slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria; faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap [Vulg.], shit [Vulg.]; sewage, sewerage; muck; coprolite; guano, manure, compost. dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes; toilet, john, head; cess, cesspool; sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer; Cloacina; dust hole. sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption; slum, rookery.

Verbs

be unclean, become unclean etc. adj.; rot, putrefy, ferment, fester, rankle, reek; stink etc. 401; mold, molder; go bad etc. adj.. render unclean etc. adj.; dirt, dirty; daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear; smirch; begrease; dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle; spatter, slubber; besmear etc., bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul; splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven; corrupt etc. (injure) 659; cover with dust etc. n.; drabble in the mud; roil. wallow in the mire; slobber, slabber.

Adjectives

dirty, filthy, grimy; unclean, impure; soiled etc. v.; not to be handled with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky; thick, turbid, dreggy; slimy; mussy [U.S.]. slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly. [of people] unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed; uncombed. unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified; squalid; lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly. nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy; fetid etc. 401. [of rotting living matter] decayed, moldy, musty, mildewed, rusty, moth-eaten, mucid, rancid, weak, bad, gone bad, etercoral, lentiginous, touched, fusty, effete, reasty, rotten, corrupt, tainted, high, flyblown, maggoty; putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied; saprogenic, saprogenous; purulent, carious, peccant; fecal, feculent; stercoraceous, excrementitious; scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous; gory, bloody; rotting etc. v.; rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese. crapulous etc. (intemperate) 954; gross etc. (impure in mind) 961; fimetarious, fimicolous.

Phrases

they that touch pitch will be defiled [Much Ado About Nothing].