Adjective : impure water and air. ,an impure style of architecture. ,impure thoughts. From Dictionary.com.
No, I submit that an impurely bad book is worse than a purely bad book. From Wordnik.com. [Worst SF/F Book Ever] Reference
Mel Gibson's breakout feature is impurely and not so simply about revenge. From Wordnik.com. [New 'Star Trek': A Splendid Enterprise] Reference
This is impurely a tax on travelling and nothing to do with saving the planet. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference
The actual manner in which superficial truths exist is devoid of those impossible ways in which they impurely appear to exist. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Truths in Vaibhashika and Sautrantika] Reference
It's the most purely — and impurely — enjoyable storytelling HBO has delivered in ages, like a movie that you never want to end. From Wordnik.com. [Roush Review: Dazzling Boardwalk: I'll Drink to That!] Reference
He thinks and talks impurely, his home life is largely a matter of convenience, there is often little or no spiritual comradeship between husband and wife. From Wordnik.com. [A Renegade History of the United States] Reference
Thus, since conventional valid cognition always makes impure appearances of superficial truths, the division scheme of superficial truths into correct and distorted ones refers only to impurely appearing superficial truths. From Wordnik.com. [The Validity and Accuracy of Cognition of the Two Truths in Gelug-Prasangika] Reference
In other words, there is no findable entity, such as a “white rectangular towel,” that exists independently of a mode of appearance, and which can appear either impurely or purely, depending on the mind that cognizes it. From Wordnik.com. [The Validity and Accuracy of Cognition of the Two Truths in Gelug-Prasangika] Reference
Have I committed masturbation or otherwise sinned impurely with myself?. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
It is a horror to me to fancy that any man should think of her impurely. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne] Reference
To him who woos, but woos impurely, she returns enriched what is brought. From Wordnik.com. [Art] Reference
Jo Bonney, is more purely or impurely, this being a LaBute play spiritual. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
For example, I would list TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE or TO SAIL BEYOND THE SUNSET as impurely bad books. From Wordnik.com. [Worst SF/F Book Ever] Reference
Badawin, who spoke impurely, whereupon Sibawayh left the court, retired to Khorasan and died, it is said of a broken heart. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
The aesthetic significance of form is feebly and impurely felt, the power of creating it is lost almost; but finer descriptions have rarely been painted. From Wordnik.com. [Art] Reference
He then begs that she may not be awakened, because this sleep is then of use to detach the senses from the objects which they loved impurely, and thus to purify them. From Wordnik.com. [Song of Songs of Solomon / Explanations and Reflections having Reference to the Interior Life] Reference
Not the faintest suggestion of immodesty -- nothing that the most profligate man living could have interpreted impurely -- showed itself in her look or manner, as she said those words. From Wordnik.com. [The Fallen Leaves] Reference
He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and purely that we do not know whether there is any relation between Max the essayist and Mr. Beerbohm the man. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Reader] Reference
Nay: those that live impurely lavish even whole estates on their strumpets; and thou who hast a worthy love, art thou so cold, and weak, and unmanly, as not to be willing to love, even when it costs thee nothing?. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians] Reference
For from "the grace" we reap no benefit towards salvation, if we live impurely; nay, we are even harmed, having this greater aggravation even of our sins, in that after such knowledge and such a gift we have gone back to our former vices. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians] Reference
Al-Mas'údi relates how a man thus begotten became a determined enemy of Ali; and the ancient Jews attributed the magical powers of Joshua Nazarenus to this accident of his birth, the popular idea being that sorcerers are thus impurely engendered. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
I do not suggest for one moment that their appreciation of art is a thing to be ashamed of; the majority of the charming and intelligent people with whom I am acquainted appreciate visual art impurely; and, by the way, the appreciation of almost all great writers has been impure. From Wordnik.com. [Art] Reference
Al – Mas’údi relates how a man thus begotten became a determined enemy of Ali; and the ancient Jews attributed the magical powers of Joshua Nazarenus to this accident of his birth, the popular idea being that sorcerers are thus impurely engendered. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
For that reason I try not to speak impurely. From Wordnik.com. [The Berrybender Narratives] Reference
Sanction utilitarianism is impurely indirect. From Wordnik.com. [Mill's Moral and Political Philosophy] Reference
Live impurely?. From Wordnik.com. [Amor y romanticismo] Reference
Have I touched or embraced another impurely?. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
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