uncleanlily

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adverb

In an uncleanly manner.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adverbuncleanlily (comparative more uncleanlily, superlative most uncleanlily)

comparative more uncleanlily · superlative most uncleanlily

  1. In an uncleanly manner.

    Thus to a single cook has been traced the infection of twenty-six persons in seven different families to whose gastronomic exigencies she uncleanlily ministered.

    1921, Theophil Mitchell Prudden, The Story of the Bacteria and Their Relations to Health and Disease, page 103
    1 more example

    […] viz., the influence of sundry stars, great standing waters never refreshed, carrion lying long above ground, much people in small room, living uncleanlily and sluttishly.

    1883, The Sanitary Journal: A Journal of Hygiene and Public Health, page 174

Origin

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Chicago

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