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Definition of "unwashed" []

  • Not washed; unclean. (adjective)
  • Plebeian: the unwashed masses. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "unwashed" in a sentence
  • "Sexually repressed white missionaries who stink in unwashed wool."
  • "If the unwashed is into prose fantasy, chances are that person may have read one of Gaiman’s novels, and noting that Gaiman has also written a highly regarded, widely available comic book that covers many of his usual themes seems like one of the fairer conversion gambits out there.)"
  • "They see us as a bunch of traditional "unwashed" American idiots going about raping and destroying the land and "consuming" it's resources!"