adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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impure drugs
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New laws restrict the sale of impure chemicals.
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The last sample was impure and quite useless for manufacturing purposes.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Brethren, a branch that believed in keeping itself pure of false doctrine by avoiding association with the impure .
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Even more important is the statement that nothing can be done to aid the unjust and impure after death.
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Nothing impure could touch his lasting image of Regine.
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She considers thin distinction between the pure and the impure an essential part of social order.
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This latter case is analogous to the melting of a highly impure crystal.
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Upholders of the scientific faith shudder at the implications of having to mix it with such irredeemably subjective and impure elements.