Uncleanness
Nouns
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uncleanness etc. adj.
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impurity
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immundity, immundicity
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impurity etc. Impurity [of mind]. defilement, contamination etc. v.
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defoedation
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soilure, soiliness
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abomination
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leaven
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taint, tainture
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fetor etc. Fetor. decay
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putrescence, putrefaction
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corruption
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mold, must, mildew, dry rot, mucor, rubigo. slovenry
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slovenliness etc. adj.
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squalor. dowdy, drab, slut, malkin, slattern, sloven, slammerkin, slammock, slummock, scrub, draggle-tail, mudlark, dust-man, sweep
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beast. dirt, filth, soil, slop
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dust, cobweb, flue
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smoke, soot, smudge, smut, grit, grime, raff
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sossle, sozzle. sordes, dregs, grounds, lees
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argol
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sediment, settlement heeltap
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dross, drossiness
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mother, precipitate, scoriae, ashes, cinders. recrement, slag
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scum, froth. hogwash
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ditchwater, dishwater, bilgewater
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rinsings, cheeseparings
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sweepings etc. (useless refuse) Inutility
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offscourings, outscourings
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off scum
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residuum, sprue, clinker, draff
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scurf, scurfiness
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morphea
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fur, furfur
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dandruff, tartar. riffraff
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vermin, louse, flea, bug, chinch. mud, mire, quagmire, alluvium, silt, sludge, slime, slush, slosh, sposh [U.S.]. spawn, offal, gurry [U.S.]
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lientery
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garbage, carrion
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excreta etc. Excretion
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slough, peccant humor, pus, matter, suppuration, lienteria
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faeces, feces, excrement, ordure, dung, crap [Vulg.], shit [Vulg.]
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sewage, sewerage
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muck
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coprolite
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guano, manure, compost. dunghill, colluvies, mixen, midden, bog, laystall, sink, privy, jakes
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toilet, john, head
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cess, cesspool
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sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer
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Cloacina
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dust hole. sty, pigsty, lair, den, Augean stable, sink of corruption
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slum, rookery.
Verbs
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be unclean, become unclean etc. adj.
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rot, putrefy, ferment, fester, rankle, reek
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stink etc. Fetor
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mold, molder
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go bad etc. adj.. render unclean etc. adj.
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dirt, dirty
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daub, blot, blur, smudge, smutch, soil, smoke, tarnish, slaver, spot, smear
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smirch
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begrease
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dabble, drabble, draggle, daggle
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spatter, slubber
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besmear etc., bemire, beslime, begrime, befoul
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splash, stain, distain, maculate, sully, pollute, defile, debase, contaminate, taint, leaven
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corrupt etc. (injure) Deterioration
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cover with dust etc. n.
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drabble in the mud
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roil. wallow in the mire
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slobber, slabber.
Adjectives
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dirty, filthy, grimy
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unclean, impure
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soiled etc. v.
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not to be handled with kid gloves
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dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky
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thick, turbid, dreggy
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slimy
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mussy [U.S.]. slovenly, untidy, messy, uncleanly. [of people] unkempt, sluttish, dowdy, draggle-tailed
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uncombed. unscoured, unswept, unwiped, unwashed, unstrained, unpurified
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squalid
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lutose, slammocky, slummocky, sozzly. nasty, coarse, foul, offensive, abominable, beastly, reeky, reechy
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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
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putrid, putrefactive, putrescent, putrefied
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saprogenic, saprogenous
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purulent, carious, peccant
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fecal, feculent
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stercoraceous, excrementitious
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scurfy, scurvy, impetiginous
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gory, bloody
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rotting etc. v.
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rotten as a pear, rotten as cheese. crapulous etc. (intemperate) Intemperance
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gross etc. (impure in mind) Impurity
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fimetarious, fimicolous.
Phrases
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they that touch pitch will be defiled" [Much Ado About Nothing].