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1
containing foreign or lower-grade substances
- be careful, because impure motor oil can damage your car's engine
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2
depicting or referring to sexual matters in a way that is unacceptable in polite society
- Victorian notions of what qualified as impure art now strike us as laughable
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- priggish,
- prim,
- prudish,
- puritanical,
- staid,
- straitlaced
- (or straightlaced),
- Victorian
- approved,
- endorsed
- (also indorsed),
- sanctioned
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The first known use of impure was in the 15th century
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