unwashed
adj.not clean or not washed. It can also describe someone who does not care about their appearance or social rules.
adj.unclean or not having been washed; by extension, describes a person who lacks social polish or conventional grooming standards. Often carries a derogatory or dismissive tone.
“The unwashed clothes are starting to smell.”
“He was dismissed from the interview because his unwashed appearance suggested a lack of professionalism.”
“The critic dismissed the band as a group of unwashed outsiders, failing to recognize the technical mastery hidden behind their intentionally disheveled aesthetic.”
“Some brought their unwashed laundry to a protest in the capital in August 2026.”
From Middle English unwasched, unwasschyd, unwessched, a weak verb conjugation of earlier Middle English unwaschen (“unwashen”), equivalent to un- + washed.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.