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impurely
Variant of impure
adjective
not pure; specif.,
- unclean; dirty
- unclean according to religious ritual; defiled
- obscene; unchaste
- mixed with foreign matter; adulterated
- mixed so as to lack purity in color, tone, style, etc.
- characterized as by grammatical errors, unidiomatic usages, solecisms, barbarisms, foreign words or idioms, esp. when used inappropriately, etc.: said of language or speech
Related Forms:
- impurely adverb
- impureness noun
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