unwashed: Meaning and Definition of

un•washed

1. not cleaned or purified by or as if by washing: unwashed dishes; the unwashed soul of a sinner.
2. pertaining to or characteristic of the common people; untutored, unsophisticated, or ignorant; plebeian: the power of the unwashed electorate.

1. an ignorant or lower-class group; rabble (usually prec. by the): The author claimed that the unwashed would not understand his books.