Robert Sapolsky

My guess is that people with a stereotypically conservative exclusionary stance about immigration rarely have the sense that they feel disgusted that people elsewhere in the world would want to come to the United States for better lives. Instead, there is threat by the rabble, the unwashed masses, to the American way of life.

American Scientist

Daniel H. Pink

I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.

American Author

Russell Smith

Yes, the hunky barista looks even more terrifically masculine with three days' growth on his chin. Guys under 50 mostly do. But when your beard is partly or largely grey, that stubble can just look a little unwashed. Sadly, when you're over 50, different rules apply.

Canadian Novelist

Norman Foster

You can find, occasionally, some absolutely fantastic things in hunting shops. I've got one jacket that I just happened across which is a kind of unwashed leather - completely anonymous but absolutely special.

British Architect

Alice Hamilton

From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men were poisoned by breathing poisoned air, not by handling their food with unwashed hands.

Mark Twain

In 'Huckleberry Finn,' I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.

American Writer

Robert A. Cook

Cut your morning devotions into your personal grooming. You would not go out to work with a dirty face. Why start the day with the face of your soul unwashed?

American Educator

Anthony Newley

To the unwashed public, Joan Collins is a star. But to those who know her, she's a commodity who would sell her own bowel movement.

English Actor

Judy Sheindlin

I go down to the gym unwashed, like something dragged in from behind a truck.

American Lawyer

Use 'unwashed' to vividly describe something dirty, as if you can see the dirt or filth on it.

Visual Imagery

'Unwashed' suggests neglect or lack of care, especially for personal items or appearance.

Neglect Indication

Use 'unwashed' for tangible items or people, not for abstract concepts.

Physical State

'Unwashed' metaphorically describes the ordinary population, often in political or social contexts.

Metaphorical Usage

When referring to people, 'unwashed' can sound dismissive or derogatory, implying a lower status.

Potentially Dismissive

Historically, 'unwashed' has classist undertones, likening lower classes to dirtiness or ignorance.

Historical Class

 or unwashed produce, or from playing in sandboxes, or cleaning out litter boxes. This is behind the common recommendation that pregnant women not change cat litter. Toxo can cause serious birth defects. We can also get toxo from eating undercooked meat

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 I was frightened of her. I felt like a child. I was afraid some repressed part of myself would go out of control, and I'd be forever entrapped in the shocking seethe of her stench. Not excrement merely, not merely surface and orifice going unwashed,