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Recent Examples of unwashed
Adjective
In the world's least developed countries, every two seconds a baby is born into unwashed hands due to a lack of water. Kelly Parsons, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025 High-risk foods include undercooked pork or beef, raw freshwater fish, and unwashed vegetables and fruits. Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025 Carefully section your dry, unwashed hair with clips to help with the application process. Essence, 22 July 2025 Following the exit of John Galliano, Glenn Martens made his debut as creative director of Maison Margiela with an Artisanal collection honoring the house’s legacy of provocative, avant-garde fashions while also sticking an unwashed thumb in the eye of the numbing quiet luxury juggernaut. Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 11 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for unwashed
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unwashed
Adjective
  • Jarren Duran lined a low single through the left side of the infielder, and Eaton raced home.
    Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Long-term solutions may involve investments in affordable housing and community land trusts to provide sustainable options for low-income families.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Yet Empire Falls translates into a lumpen, stodgy miniseries, despite a fine central performance from Harris as a divorced diner owner with deep roots in the town and a structure that allows the past to keep informing and enriching the present.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Rhys spent decades, often isolated and paranoid, in lumpen houses and apartments in and out of London, before success arrived late.
    New York Times, New York Times, 20 June 2022
Noun
  • Steve heads up a reform school for volatile, cursing and rabble-rousing English boys, and his mental health is tested when a documentary crew shows up and word gets out the school is closing.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
  • There was little-to-no doubt Jurgen Klopp’s side were going to defeat Ralf Rangnick’s under-interim-management rabble that day.
    Carl Anka, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • From the humble red dwarfs to the titanic supergiants, stars come in a dazzling array of sizes, colors, and lifespans.
    Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Heading into the season, Shough's had a humble headspace.
    Skyler Caruso, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In France, many of these free men of color witnessed the tumultuous storming of the Bastille prison in July 1789 and watched with hope as the revolutionary rhetoric of liberty, equality, and fraternity eventually led the French populace to overturn monarchical rule.
    Marlene L. Daut September 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • This willingness of the AI to heap praise and act as a sycophant has worrying consequences for the populace as a whole.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Below that sits the pedestrian CLK 500 and plebeian CLK 350.
    Jeremy Korzeniewski, Robb Report, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Across the lake, on the plebeian side, up the shoreline a mile or so, in the heart of downtown West Palm Beach, stand twin 32-story towers dubbed Trump Plaza of the Palm Beaches.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Rumors about the Only Murders in the Building star's nuptials with Benny Blanco being this weekend turned out to be 100-percent true, and as soon as a few beautiful photos of the cute couple were green-lighted to be shared with the eager public, fans were double-tapping with tears in their eyes.
    Marci Robin, Allure, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Flay and Williamson began dating earlier this year, taking their relationship public in March.
    Erin Clements, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • This new proletarian culture was personified in the ideal of the New Soviet Man.
    Sonja Fritzsche, The Conversation, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Unwashed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unwashed. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.

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