The word 'unclean' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this word to describe something that is dirty, contaminated, or impure. For example, "The floor in the kitchen was so unclean that we had to call the cleaning company."
Periods are known to make young girls feel unclean, and smelly.
They've never been called unclean and sent to huts and baths outside their homes and villages, away from kitchens, in case they turned the bacon rancid, tainted their spouses, repelled fish and game, polluted the air and young hunters, affected the weather negatively with their gaze, bled uncontrollably, stank and became wild and dangerous.
The corpse handlers are "living ghosts,", dirty, unclean – a group who other citizens fear.
Corpse handlers are not unclean.
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Handling meat and tanning leather are considered unclean in Hinduism, so the factory was built out of sight, on an island, with villagers of the lowly Koli fishing caste mending their nets on its shore.
That distrust was evident in 1990, when the Iranians turned down many offers of outside help in the aftermath of a previous catastrophic quake and officials denounced sniffer dogs as "unclean".
She speculates that the reason for this is that feeling morally unclean (ie, disgusted) leads to feelings of moral wrongness and thus triggers increased ethical behaviour by instilling a desire to right the wrong.
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Traditionally, dalits were unclean they were excluded from the places where the upper castes worship, eat and drink, and were employed to deal with, for example, corpses and excrement.
'Aids', 'diseased', 'unclean', and 'riddled' were among the top four cited.
