Definition of uncleanly in English:
uncleanly
adjective ʌnˈklɛnliˌənˈklenlē
archaic term for unclean
Example sentencesExamples
- Looking up and down the short hallway, Virginia saw the sight of the large, uncleanly crewmen celebrating an unknown occasion with large mugs of ale.
- Repton substituted ornamental gardens for ‘the uncleanly, pathless grass of a forest, filled with troublesome animals of every kind, and some occasionally dangerous.’
- It is, in fact, a point of honour with young Heathcliff to be uncleanly.