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uncleanly

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of uncleanly

not clean

the uncleanly uniforms of the restaurant's staff

Synonyms of uncleanly

bedraggled, befouled, begrimed, bemired, besmirched, black, blackened, cruddy, dingy, dirty, draggled, dusty, filthy, foul, grimy, grotty [chiefly British], grubby, grungy, mucky, muddy, nasty, smudged, smutty, soiled, sordid, stained, sullied, unclean

Words Related to uncleanly

contaminated, defiled, germy, impure, polluted, tainted

insanitary, uncleaned, unsanitary, unsterile, unsterilized, unwashed

chaotic, cluttered, confused, disarranged, disarrayed, disheveled (or dishevelled), disordered, jumbled, littered, messed, messy, muddled, mussed, mussy, rumpled, scruffy, sloppy, slovenly, unkempt, untidy

raunchy, scuzzy [slang], shabby, skanky [slang], sleazy, squalid

collied [chiefly British dialect], crocked [dialect], fuliginous, sooty

Near Antonyms of uncleanly

clear, limpid, pure

cleaned, cleansed, combed, groomed, neat, ordered, orderly, tidy

bleached, purified, whitened

bright, flawless, perfect, shiny, sparkling, unspotted, untouched

taintless, unblemished, undefiled, unpolluted, untainted, virgin, wholesome

Antonyms of uncleanly

clean, cleanly, immaculate, spick-and-span (or spic-and-span), spotless, stainless, ultraclean, unsoiled, unstained, unsullied

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