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unsanitary
[ uhn-san-i-ter-ee ]
adjective
- not sanitary; unhealthy or unhealthful; tending to harbor or spread disease:
unsanitary living conditions.
unsanitary
/ ʌnˈsænɪtərɪ; -trɪ /
adjective
- not conducive to or promoting health; dirty or unhygienic
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- un·sani·tari·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of unsanitary1
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Example Sentences
The majority of the early cases were traced back to unsanitary needles.
And many parents prefer not to bring small children to the gloomy and often unsanitary hotels near the colonies.
The camp now is now an unsanitary eyesore, strewn with garbage, drug paraphernalia, and rats looking for leftovers.
The FDA is cracking down after finding unsanitary conditions at airline caterers.
And digging a hole in the backyard for cooking meat sounds just plain unsanitary.
(a) Poor nutrition, which usually accompanies unsanitary conditions, poor and insufficient food, etc.
Slates are dirty and unsanitary: let the children write on paper that has a dull finish.
Yet in these sections the worst possible home conditions will exist—unsanitary schools, dirty streets, badly paved.
Rome was afflicted by one of those pestilences which one finds in all the epochs of the history of this unsanitary city.
There were carts loaded with pungent and unsanitary-looking food.
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