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pure

If something is pure, it is not dirty or covered by anything that makes it unclean.

pure

free of extraneous elements of any kind pure air and water pure gold pure primary colors the violin's pure and lovely song pure tones pure oxygen (= arrant, complete, consummate, double-dyed, gross, perfect, sodding, stark, staring, thoroughgoing, utter, unadulterated) without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers an arrant fool a complete coward a consummate fool a double-dyed villain gross negligence a perfect idiot pure folly what a sodding mess stark staring mad a thoroughgoing villain utter nonsense the unadulterated truth concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied pure science free from discordant qualities (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black (= vestal, virgin, virginal) in a state of sexual virginity pure and vestal modesty a spinster or virgin lady men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless I felt pure and sweet as a new baby — Sylvia Plath pure as the driven snow

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Simple sentences

These days, the motives for marriage are not necessarily pure.
That's opportunism pure and simple.
The child had a pure heart.
The air is very pure in the mountains.
I met him by pure chance.
The girl has a pure voice.
Blessed are the pure in heart.
It was pure chance that he won the game.
They checked how pure the water was.
Is this pure gold?
Is that pure gold?
Some of my classmates are pure noobs; they know nothing about computing sciences.
Today's pure mathematics is tomorrow's applied mathematics.
Critique of Pure Reason is German philosopher Immanuel Kant's chief literary work.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Please make sure the drinking water is pure.
Mary's wedding ring is made of pure gold.
The water is pure.
Unblended gold in its pure form is so soft, that one can knead it by hand.
She has a pure heart.
We are breathing pure air.

Movie subtitles

She just freaked out, and it was just a pure joke.
Larry, I think you have a chance to heal the world today in the simplest, most pure kind of way.
It was pure silk twill with a handmade rolled edge.
It was only pure ambition.
Drink up, fellows, pure product from our own distillery!
When you look at me I feel pure.
Dea is pure and intact.
The vampire is a pure myth, superstition.
It's up to us to make them pure, jill.
A pure accident.
Your pure white knight.
A pure knight, a noble king.
But this is pure treason!
God keep you always so pure and happy, my child.
Past enemies can turn into future friends if they keep a pure heart.
Pure luck. Conditions have changed. These are precarious times.
Pure fiction, all of it!
Pure libel and slander.
Pure, unadulterated skill.
H ha.. that's pure Tommy-rot. Well, there's another aspect.
I don't suppose you can understand how any woman unprotected, as you say I am, can be lifted above self-interest by a sentiment so delicate and pure that she feels only humiliation when you speak of such things.
She's as pure as the driven snow, as faithful as she is fair.
That's all pure desiccation along there.
It's pure Gothic.
You know, the pure flower of knighthood, all that mahoskus, huh?
She's a child - a pure child.
Do you want to drink pure water?
Jerry's sure game, pure venison from the hoof to the antlers.
Pure libel and slander. We haven't a leg to stand on.
A feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred.
I'm pure again.
We shall never have peace till we have a pure Aryan race. How wonderful!
We'll kill off the Jews, wipe out the brunettes, then will come forth a pure Aryan race.
Pure politics.
This oil scheme is pure fraud.

News and current affairs

The rise of right-wing populism reflects revived yearnings for pure national communities that keep immigrants and minorities out.
Of course, pure public goods are rare.
And sometimes the killers reach for ideological justifications: building pure Islam, struggling for communism or fascism, or saving the West.
But honestly speaking, nothing has been done that could not be explained by pure self interest.
Yes, Estonians invented Skype, the Internet telephone system, but in general Estonia, like the rest of Europe, is falling behind in both innovation and pure science.
After all, debt (which is measured in currency units) and GDP (which is measured in currency units per unit of time) yields a ratio in units of pure time.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the issue is not one of pure doctrine.
People's weak appetite for economic risk may not be the result of pure fear, at least not in the sense of an anxiety like stage fright.
A balance of energy imports and exports does not produce pure independence, but it does alter the power relations involved in energy interdependence.
This is pure escapism.
The emphasis on pure self-interest increases this threat.
These shared values are the glue that binds governments together in the recognition that clinging to pure self-interest is no longer reasonable when common concerns call for a common strategy.
While in play, they are supposed to act as pure rational beings who leave behind their everyday passions and emotions, personal wishes or fears.
They move in the world of pure morality and justice.
The US auto industry should be re-tooled for low-carbon-emission automobiles, either plug-in hybrids or pure battery-operated vehicles.
The issue is all the more painful and disappointing since most Latin American foreign ministries know full well that these attitudes are pure politics, nothing more.
Clearly, national interests, and sometimes pure power, play a part in how the US and other Western countries apply values like human rights, the rule of law, democracy, and pluralism.
Although a three-way race is pure speculation at this point, it's clear that it offers Ortega the best of all electoral worlds.
A second school of thought also portrays the crisis as a pure liquidity problem, but views long-term insolvency as an outside risk at worst.

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