unpristine
English
Etymology
un- + pristine
Adjective
unpristine (comparative more unpristine, superlative most unpristine)
- Not pristine; sullied, dirty, impure.
- 2007 November 7, Andy Newman, “Protecting a Wild Patch of City Marshland”, in New York Times:
- 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.
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