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impure
Part of speech: AdjectiveMixed with foreign or outside substance; as, sugar mixed with sand is impure sugar; not virtuous in thought, word, or deed; as, impure stories; unclean; dirty; not accurate; said of a language or style.
Part of speech: AdverbImpurely.
Usage examples "impure":- But, if I ever gave you any advice about the choice of a friend, I think I should be quite safe in saying to you, be very slow to accept into the sacred place of your friendship any young man who talks with impure lips of womanhood. - "The High Calling", Charles M. Sheldon.
- Knock- out drops- Drugged or impure liquor. - "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke", C. J. Dennis.
- Come hither, ye impure swine- eaters! - "The Slaves of the Padishah", Mór Jókai.