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.
Definition of uncleanly in US English:
uncleanly
adjectiveˌənˈklenlē
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.