Word: uncleane
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...expresses the general prejudice against lefthanders. A lefthanded compliment is actually an insult, the Latin word sinister (left) has taken on a, well, sinister cast, and the French word gauche, which means left, is used to describe a socially awkward person. In Moslem societies, the left hand is considered unclean...
...Protestants and still fewer Jews practice rhythm. In addition, Orthodox Jews abide by Niddah, the Mosaic law which prescribes abstention while a woman is "unclean" (Leviticus 15:19-24). Some rabbinical teachers have extended this time to a total of seven days after the end of menstruation...
...good white against the bad colored. It's the pure and powerful . . . against the vile and unclean troublemakers. It's racial violence," one student said...
...preferred her limericks unclean...
...heed sensible advice until it was too late. And he fatally fractured the image of the Czar in the mind of the masses. The imperial pair saw a calumniated saint in Rasputin; the people, in the words of a monarchist member of the Duma, saw "the beastly, drunken unclean face of a bald satyr from Tobolsk...