Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Uncleanness

Nouns
  • uncleanness etc. adj.
  • impurity
  • immundity, immundicity
  • impurity etc. Impurity [of mind]. defilement, contamination etc. v.
  • defoedation
  • soilure, soiliness
  • abomination
  • leaven
  • taint, tainture
  • fetor etc. Fetor. 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) Inutility
  • offscourings, outscourings
  • off scum
  • residuum, sprue, clinker, draff
  • scurf, scurfiness
  • 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. Excretion
  • 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. Fetor
  • 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) Deterioration
  • 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. Fetor. [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) Intemperance
  • gross etc. (impure in mind) Impurity
  • fimetarious, fimicolous.
Phrases
  • they that touch pitch will be defiled" [Much Ado About Nothing].