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  • adjective superlative form of impure: most impure.

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Examples

  • I was the one who thought of asking Łukasz, out of the impurest of motives: I wanted him to see what he had thrown away.

    Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009

  • I was the one who thought of asking Łukasz, out of the impurest of motives: I wanted him to see what he had thrown away.

    Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009

  • I was the one who thought of asking Łukasz, out of the impurest of motives: I wanted him to see what he had thrown away.

    Dreaming in French Megan McAndrew 2009

  • Hate them as much as I do; and as much as I admire, and next to adore, a truly virtuous and elegant woman: for to me it is evident, that as a neat and clean woman must be an angel of a creature, so a sluttish one is the impurest animal in nature.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • There is little doubt but that milk is one of the uncleanest and impurest of all foods.

    No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes Rupert H. Wheldon

  • With a comprehensiveness which would have astounded the impurest of Western ears, he cursed Millicent and her vile offspring into the third and fourth generations.

    There was a King in Egypt Norma Lorimer 1906

  • English and, abusing him scandalously in impurest Hindi, flinging at him in silken tones untranslatable scraps of bazaar Billingsgate.

    The Bronze Bell Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • But, so far from realising that black may be white, your average voter seems to imagine that neither is ever even tempered: that his party is purest white, and the opposition party impurest black.

    Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 1895

  • "The sea contains the purest and impurest water, drinkable and wholesome for fishes, it is undrinkable and injurious to human beings."

    Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English Rudolf Steiner 1893

  • It is theism, in its purest as in its impurest shape, that the writer condemns.

    Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. John Morley 1880

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