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Example sentences for "uncleanly"

Lexicographically close words:
unclassified; uncle; unclean; uncleaned; uncleanliness; uncleanness; uncleannesses; unclear; uncleared; unclenched
  1. Inasmuch as cleanliness and sanitary care are certain results of the influence of character schools, quarantine against uncleanly and unsanitary conditions of neglect is sure to follow.

  2. Committee on Parallel Sanitary and Cleanliness Requirements, which must claim attention in connection with the reclamation of children from unsanitary and uncleanly surroundings.

  3. Theaters, churches, and assembly rooms could be built so as to drill audiences in habits of health instead of fixing habits of uncleanly breathing.

  4. Nothing less than a national campaign can make the vivid impression necessary to wean dairymen of uncleanly habits and mothers of the ignorant superstition that babies die in summer just because they are babies.

  5. Many capable men and women, even those who have had thorough technical training, fail to win promotion because their persons are not clean, their breath offensive, their clothes suggestive of disorderly, uncleanly habits.

  6. One day a gondolier vaingloriously rowed us to the water-gate of the edifice through a very narrow, damp, and uncleanly canal, pretending that there was a beautiful staircase in its court.

  7. It was among the prejudices of former times that pigs are uncleanly animals, and fond of wallowing in the mire for mire's sake.

  8. Though it was a modest, uncleanly place, I had grown used to it; and I dreaded another expedition into the unknown.

  9. It is important also to avoid food prepared by uncleanly persons who may be infested with tape-worms.

  10. Persons sleeping with others infested are liable to infection, especially if they are uncleanly and in the habit of eating in bed.

  11. Moreover, observations go to show that infection may, and probably ordinarily does, occur from eggs scratched from the anus and conveyed to the mouth directly or by being applied to food from uncleanly hands.

  12. Seat-worms prevail in all conditions of society, but their prevalence is largely proportioned to the more or less uncleanly habits.

  13. Thus, too, uncleanly nurses who may be infested with seat-worms after scratching may handle food and infest children under their charge.

  14. Exceedingly uncleanly domestic arrangements, or the entire absence of them, are also a serious matter in this connection, from a sanitary point of view.

  15. A great contrast is apparent here to the crowded streets and narrow lanes of the uncleanly capital, while the air is undoubtedly remarkable for its healthful and invigorating qualities.

  16. Learn of the wise, and perpend: civet is of a baser birth than tar- the very uncleanly flux of a cat.

  17. You told me you salute not at the court, but you kiss your hands; that courtesy would be uncleanly if courtiers were shepherds.

  18. It appears to be a disease incident to cold, damp places, ill-lighted and imperfectly ventilated rooms, and it especially attacks those who are uncleanly in their habits.

  19. The uncleanly shanty faded from before his eyes, and he was not even conscious that Allonby, who had laid down his own correspondence, was watching him until the latter broke the silence.

  20. Brooke lay drowsily in a canvas chair, while Allonby sat at the uncleanly table, with a litter of burnt matches and tobacco ash as well as a steaming glass in front of him.

  21. He already loathed the comfortless place, from the hideous oleographs on the bare wood walls down to the uncleanly sawdust on the floor.

  22. The habit of using tobacco is uncleanly and impolite.

  23. They were very uncleanly in their persons, stout built, and healthy.

  24. How much more so must they have been when, from the uncleanly habits of the Indians, they were the common receptacle of all kinds of filth, and were constantly stirred up to their very bottoms by the setting-poles of the navigators?

  25. The people of the town take a pride in its natural beauty; and there are no filthy alleys, no squalid poverty, or uncleanly hovels.

  26. And aside from the fact that they are often infested by lice and other insects, and addicted to uncleanly habits, they ought always to be excluded, and with iron bars and bolts, if necessary, from the beds of children.

  27. The opinion has been even maintained, that uncleanly habits are not only unfavorable to health, but to morality.

  28. Their uncleanly habits make the house flies most efficient agents in the carriage of different diseases, especially typhoid fever and others which attack the digestive tract.

  29. Offices of the skin, and evil consequences of keeping it in an uncleanly condition.

  30. Away with me, all you whose souls abhor Th' uncleanly savours of a slaughter-house; For I am stifled with this smell of sin.

  31. Who has a breast so pure, But some uncleanly apprehensions Keep leets and law-days, and in session sit With meditations lawful?

  32. Dried figs, for example, in pretty baskets are sometimes packed in uncleanly places.

  33. The difference in odor is marked between a market that is properly cleaned daily, and one where the proprietor uses uncleanly methods.

  34. And uncleanly he must be left, for it takes a deal to shame a stork.

  35. The pelican is a scrupulous old Dutchman, and the stork is an uncleanly old Hindu.

  36. To wear garments that are daily being soiled by perspiration and other cutaneous excretions, is a most uncleanly and unhealthful practice.

  37. It is also a fact that uncleanly people are more liable to take cold than those who bathe often.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uncleanly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    black; contaminated; dirty; filthy; foul; grubby; immoral; impure; infected; muddy; nasty; polluted; sordid; squalid; unchaste; unclean; unwashed