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unpristine en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + pristine.

Meanings

1. Not pristine; sullied, dirty, impure.
   • The subject of all this breathlessness is a decidedly unpristine swath of Staten Island known as Arlington Marsh, a boggy green break in one of the city's most industrialized stretches of waterfront. 2007 November 7, Andy Newman, “Protecting a Wild Patch of City Marshland”, in New York Times:

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