insanitary

  • 101unsanitary — un|san|i|ta|ry [ʌnˈsænıtəri US teri] adj dirty and likely to cause disease = ↑insanitary ▪ unsanitary conditions …

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  • 102sanitary — san|i|tar|y [ sænı,teri ] adjective 1. ) relating to people s health, especially to the system of supplying water and dealing with human waste: Overcrowding has now been added to poor sanitary conditions. 2. ) a sanitary process or method is one… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 103unhygienic — [[t]ʌ̱nhaɪʤi͟ːnɪk, AM ʤie̱nɪk[/t]] ADJ GRADED If you describe something as unhygienic, you mean that it is dirty and likely to cause infection or disease. Parts of the shop were very dirty, unhygienic, and an ideal breeding ground for bacteria …

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  • 104unsanitary — [[t]ʌ̱nsæ̱nɪtri, AM teri[/t]] ADJ GRADED Something that is unsanitary is dirty and unhealthy, so that you may catch a disease from it. ...diseases caused by unsanitary conditions... Discharge of raw sewage into the sea is unsanitary and unsafe.… …

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  • 105black hole —    obsolete    a prison    So called because it was insanitary, unlit, and below ground. Sometimes shortened to hole:     Nothing but law and vengeance, blackhole and fining. (Cross, 1844)     They l other foin us, or else send us to t oil.… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 106hospital fever — noun historical louse borne typhus acquired in overcrowded, insanitary conditions in an old fashioned hospital …

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  • 107disease — /dI zi:z/ noun 1 (C, U) an illness or unhealthy condition in your body, especially one caused by infection: eye/liver/kidney etc disease: Heart disease runs in our family. | cause disease: filthy insanitary conditions that cause disease |… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 108sanitary — adjective 1 (only before noun) connected with health, especially with the removal of dirt, infection, or human waste: After examining the sanitary arrangements, they ordered the whole place to be disinfected. 2 clean and not involving any danger… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 109unsanitary — adjective especially AmE conditions or places that are unsanitary are very dirty and likely to cause disease; insanitary …

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  • 110insalubrious — adj unsalubrious, unhealthy, unhealthful, bad for one s health; foul, dirty, unclean, not fit to eat or drink, unsanitary, insanitary, unhygienic, unsanitized; unwholesome, jejune, innutritious, unnutritious, unnutritive, nonnutritious,… …

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