What's the difference between unclean and wallow?

Unclean


Definition:

  • (a.) Not clean; foul; dirty; filthy.
  • (a.) Ceremonially impure; needing ritual cleansing.
  • (a.) Morally impure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Fairfax Media via Getty Images Monis waged a campaign for years, writing letters to the families of Australian soldiers who had died in Afghanistan , labelling them child killers and their corpses unclean.
  • (2) The vendor asked $1m for the toilet, "uncleaned and in its original condition", writing: "Who knows how many of [his] stories were thought up and written while Salinger sat on this throne!"
  • (3) The exact cause of the deaths is not yet clear but officials said they suspected infection caused by unclean surgical equipment.
  • (4) Such actions would make some Muslims consider themselves unclean so they would stop praying.
  • (5) The aim is to make you feel guilty, unclean, a sinner in the eyes of God, and of course in the withering stare of the preacher.
  • (6) At the coronal cervix, the so-called uncleaned area, the path of the food bolus and its rubbing effect are said to be regulated by the coronal and gingival contours.
  • (7) It is dusty, unclean and you are given no cleaning stuff.
  • (8) 0.6 mm) on the cleaned than on the uncleaned sides.
  • (9) It was established that they enter the product by way of unclean production lines and implements, by the fermenting agent, by the air in the fermentation premises.
  • (10) The following variables were significantly associated with an increased risk of dehydration, after adjustment for age and other confounding variables: absence of the father from the home; low paternal education level; young age; maternal age 25-29 years or less than 20 years; mother of mixed race; high birth order; short birth interval; low birth weight; stunting, underweight and wasting; lack of breast-feeding; presence of other under-5-year-olds in the home; families with 4-5 members; lack of antenatal care; less than three doses of diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus or poliomyelitis vaccine; previous admission to hospital; use of medicines during the fortnight prior to the episode; and living in an unclean home.
  • (11) Histologic study revealed patchy chronic inflammation at the surface of uncleaned filters but only benign fibrous tissue reaction for the cleaned filters.
  • (12) Histologic examinations after 4 weeks revealed bacterial growth on dentinal walls in 9 of the uncleaned and in 2 cleaned cavities.
  • (13) Anxious patients may overclean or overtreat sensitive genital skin in the belief that they are unclean or harbour a sexually transmitted disease.
  • (14) "For the church fathers, homosexuality is the most disgusting and unclean sin," he railed in a nine-page missive made public last week.
  • (15) Each year, millions of people acquire this infection by drinking unclean water.
  • (16) Community participation could be followed by a health education program aimed at the prevention of infectious diseases caused by an unclean environment and consumption of contaminated food.
  • (17) Vilks' cartoon caused outrage because dogs are considered unclean by conservative Muslims, and Islamic law generally opposes any depiction of the prophet for fear it could lead to idolatry.
  • (18) In addition, this test turned out to be an effective educational tool for heightening the awareness of people towards dangers of unclean drinking water.
  • (19) The root cause of the region’s smog problems, from a long-term perspective, is an unclean industrial and energy mix, which requires big changes,” said Chen Jining, China’s environmental minister, adding that he “felt guilty” about the toxic haze.
  • (20) The capitalist drive to convince us that female body hair is unnatural and unclean has been alarmingly successful.

Wallow


Definition:

  • (n.) To roll one's self about, as in mire; to tumble and roll about; to move lazily or heavily in any medium; to flounder; as, swine wallow in the mire.
  • (n.) To live in filth or gross vice; to disport one's self in a beastly and unworthy manner.
  • (n.) To wither; to fade.
  • (v. t.) To roll; esp., to roll in anything defiling or unclean.
  • (n.) A kind of rolling walk.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) University websites wallowed in self-congratulation in the wake of the REF, where experts assessed research in 36 subject areas, looking at quality, the infrastructure that supported it, and its impact on the outside world.
  • (2) Let them wallow in the content that Bolt provides them, carefully calibrated to both infuriate Australia’s dwindling bigoted minority while reassuring them.
  • (3) As the turbulent commercial radio sector enters another new phase, Park wants to sweep away the thinking that has left too many of his colleagues wallowing in self-pity, and turn his fire on a familiar target.
  • (4) Her parents divorced when she was young, money was tight and there was no cable TV to wallow in.
  • (5) Unashamedly wallowing in pop Celebrating its 18th birthday, this year's V line-up reads like a typical, if solidly suburban, teenage house party playlist.
  • (6) The outrage is thumped home by this coincidence of timing: that the Premier League has reached its quarter century, now wallowing in £2.8bn annual television deals, with clubs spending £50m on right-backs , in the same year that the authorities have finally brought criminal charges for those deaths 28 years ago.
  • (7) Trimming, triangulating, sneaking small policy advantages and wallowing in the narcissism of small differences, the parties seemed locked in a distant and disreputable Westminster charade.
  • (8) The message is loud and clear to all dictators: you can arrest the opposition every other day, pass draconian laws and let your country wallow in poverty, as long as your troops are available for us when we need to go on a peace keeping mission in, say, Somalia.
  • (9) It was 12.24am, local time, when Alessandro Diamanti walked forward for the final, decisive kick and, when it was all done, Italy had booked a semi-final against Germany while England were wallowing in the familiar sense of deja vu that comes with another harrowing disappointment in a penalty shoot-out.
  • (10) When inspiration strikes, you have to hope that the other 10 people on stage will give you space to wallow in your "moment".
  • (11) Other newspapers, too, wallowed in the rumours of orgiastic high court judges, sado-masochistic cabinet ministers and aristocratic sex slaves wearing cards that read 'If my services don't please you, whip me'.
  • (12) Kevin and Perry Go Large is an excuse to wallow vicariously in the misery of adolescence.
  • (13) There, you wallow in yesteryear’s fabulosity, cast off by someone whose spending habits you’re morally outraged by but whose taste you can’t fault.
  • (14) He says his research allowed him to wallow in 70s conspiracy films such as The Conversation, The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor, "though reading Pynchon and the Illuminatus!
  • (15) To wallow in it would be fun but sullying, and also obscures the fact that Simmonds has done us a favour.
  • (16) "The pursuit of judicial refuge may produce a paradoxical effect: in the short term a rich infusion of talent for the benches; but beyond that, critics argue, the future looks bleak.Sympathy for barristers – popularly perceived as wallowing in claret, six-figure salaries and refresher fees – is limited.
  • (17) When he wasn't writing, he was usually swimming, most often in his moat, or wallowing in the massive cast-iron bath that lived at the back of the house.
  • (18) It’s so routine.” Media coverage of climate change in Fiji doesn’t have the luxury of wallowing in the sort of cosseted denialism seen in the US, Britain or Australia.
  • (19) It would be amazing to be able to relish the moment and wallow in some exciting new technology and upcoming entertainment, but unfortunately it's all coming loaded with all this woolly, drab bullshit around it.
  • (20) A sly kick at the rear of Winston Reid’s legs prompted the winger’s second yellow card – and an early wallow in the Radox.