OE (Northumbrian) Liturgical Texts (Durham Ritual) in A. H. Thompson & U. Lindelöf Rituale Ecclesiae Dunelmensis (1927) 110 Nexa fidei mandatisque permaneat, uni toro iuncta conactus inlicitos fugiat : gicnyht to lufe bibodum æc ðerhwunia anum brydsceam' gifoegedo cunnunga ða unclænlico gifliie.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 42 Ich clepie onclenlich: huanne þe seruises byeþ y-do uor onclenliche cause.

c1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) ii. 236 (MED) Þei clepyd hir Englisch sterte & spokyn many lewyd wordys vn-to hir, schewyng vn-clenly cher & cuntenawns.

a1450 tr. Aelred of Rievaulx De Institutione Inclusarum (Bodl.) (1984) 2 (MED) Certeyn, suche lusty tales gendren leccherous ymaginatyf thouȝtes..sekynge by whom, where, and whan she might fulfille in dede that the whiche hath so longe be vnclenly thoughte.

a1500 in C. T. Martin Chancery Proc. 15th Cent. in Archaeologia (1904) 59 9 Thomas Dyconson, a keper of one of the unclenly howsez.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Acts xii. f. xlviii And princes on the other parte flatter the people, exhibiting vnto theym shewes to gase vpon, & vncleanly plaies.

1598 R. Tofte Diuine Poems in Alba sig. I2 Soyled with beastly Thoughts vncleanly gore.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iii. 144 Who has a breast so pure, But some vncleanely apprehensions, Keepe leetes and law-dayes.

1667 G. Castle Chymical Galenist iii. 71 Passing by his immodest and uncleanly discourse.

1710 J. Addison Tatler No. 224. ⁋8 I cannot excuse my fellow-Labourers for admitting into their Papers several uncleanly Advertisements.

1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings III. ix. x. 287 He pursues his subject so far, as frequently to lead his reader to uncleanly scenes.

1845 W. G. Simms Count Julian i. 6 Well I know he hath a bosom full of black and uncleanly thoughts.

1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. iv. 138 Yet there was a needless and uncleanly abjectness in several of his precepts.

1929 Mod. Lang. Rev. 24 474 Sedley emerges—surprisingly enough—as the least uncleanly of the Restoration wits.

2001 M. Lackey Serpent's Shadow x. 155 His pleasures were uncleanly; the pagan and the priest alike would have been disgusted.

1447–8 in S. A. Moore Lett. & Papers J. Shillingford (1871) ii. 103 (MED) Withoute that that the saide Deane and Chapitre..have cast eny such rowble or unclenly things in to the saide lane.

1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvii. xi. sig. Nvii/1 Men that must nedes passe by stynkyng places other vnclenly rotyn places.

c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. Cviij Item that many of the priestis and clerkis often were foule and vnclenly surplesis.

1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Incultus, vncleanly apparaylyng, contrary to Cultus; negligence in apparaylyng.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. iii. 112 Th' vncleanly sauours of a Slaughter-house. View more context for this quotation

a1674 Earl of Clarendon Coll. Several Tracts (1727) 173 This uncomely and uncleanly Wardrobe.

1703 E. Ward London-Spy Compleat iv. 80 The mixtures of Scents that arose from..stinking Breaths, and uncleanly Carcasses, Poison'd our Nostrils.

1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 261 Who is there so uncleanly, as to wash his feet..in the water used by another?

1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 340 The crouded and uncleanly parts of the town.

1849 D. Rock Church our Fathers I. ii. 188 Long hair on a clergyman, besides being uncleanly, is quite against the canons of the Church.

1908 A. Davison Human Body & Health xvi. 187 The unpleasant odors given off from an uncleanly body.

1929 Travel Jan. 28/2 The uncleanly Kashmiri habitations.

2016 Londonderry Sentinel (Nexis) 8 June Whilst 95 out of 100 of people claim they wash their hands after using the toilet only 65 actually do, which is not only uncleanly, it's dangerous.

OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxix. 427 We wilniað mid urum hlaforde clænlice sweltan swiþor ðonne unclænlice mid eow lybban.

lOE Homily (Corpus Cambr. 302) in B. Assmann Angelsächsische Homilien u. Heiligenleben (1889) 168 Forðam swa hwilc man swa godes weorc clænlice..wirceð, he bið ecelice gehealden. Se þe hit þonne recelæaslice and unclænlice wyrceð, he bið awyrged into helle.

?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 278 (MED) Þese incarnate deuelis..arayen her deuelis, þat is her concubynes, wiþ whom þei lyuen vnclenly and wickidly.

c1460 Tree & 12 Frutes (McClean) (1960) 140 (MED) As sone as he þat hathe afore livid vnclenely and vnpurly bigynneth forto live chast, Anone he fyndeth batayle.

1533 tr. Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani ii. sig. B.vj As for the poetes which wryte vnclenly, I wolde counseyle the not ones to touche them.

1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. iv. 203 We walke and talke idlely, vainely, vncleanely and vngodlily.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Impurement, impurely, foulely, filthily, vncleanely.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Spurcidical.., that speaks dishonestly or uncleanly, bawdy in talk.

1719 Comm. Epist. St. John App. 96 The Priests of their Mysteries live uncleanly.

1887 Temple Bar Apr. 580 Why do you persecute me? Have I stolen, or murdered, or lived uncleanly?

1909 Converted Catholic Sept. 334 I have spoken uncleanly 5 or 6 times. I have been gluttonous 3 times.

1961 in L. Varèse tr. A. Rimbaud Season in Hell & Drunken Boat p. xii Rimbaud's life in Paris was disorderly and unstable; he lived uncleanly, took drugs and moved from one friend's hospitality to another's.

c1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) ii. 242 (MED) Hir desyr was fulfillyd, so þat oþer in þe schip voydyng & castyng ful boistowsly & vnclenly, sche..myth helpyn hem.

a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (BL Add. 9066) (1879) 375 (MED) Synners mow not take therof, but rathere vnclenly Casten oute be-fore all the stynkyng Drynke that they drynkyn.

1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxliii. 262 Much people in small roume, liuing vncleanly and sluttishly.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. ii. v. 110 The inhabitants are slouens, & the streets vncleanely kept.

1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 67 The sharpness of my stomach shall never make me feed uncleanly.

1771 W. Jones Zoologia Ethica 38 The prohibited Fowls..feed uncleanly upon filth and dead carcases.

1796 Morning Post 16 Aug. Just like the hogs in mud uncleanly nuzzling.

1828 Argus 4 July 38/3 The complaint against the Irish butter is, that it is badly made up, uncleanly packed.

1888 R. L. Stevenson in Scribner's Mag. Apr. 509/2 This stuff..rots uncleanly into something we call life.

1912 Bedford (Pa.) Gaz. 28 Nov. 2/1 If we knew how uncleanly sugar was made, we would not eat it.

2015 K. Johnson Secret Preston 56 Multitudes of people living in small dwellings uncleanly kept.