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Etymology

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uncleanly +‎ -ly

Adverb

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uncleanlily (comparative more uncleanlily, superlative most uncleanlily)

  1. In an uncleanly manner.
    • 1883, The Sanitary Journal: A Journal of Hygiene and Public Health, page 174:
      [] viz., the influence of sundry stars, great standing waters never refreshed, carrion lying long above ground, much people in small room, living uncleanlily and sluttishly.
    • 1921, Theophil Mitchell Prudden, The Story of the Bacteria and Their Relations to Health and Disease, page 103:
      Thus to a single cook has been traced the infection of twenty-six persons in seven different families to whose gastronomic exigencies she uncleanlily ministered.