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Answer for the clue "Insanitary hospital locked up by nice guy in cast ", 10 letters:
unhygienic

Word definitions for unhygienic in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Lacking hygiene, unclean.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. so unclean as to be a likely cause of disease; "pathetic dogs kept in small unhygienic cages"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Hospital cleaners were criticized for the unhygienic conditions of the central kitchens. ▪ It is unhygienic to store raw meat at that temperature. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But this is an old fashioned and potentially ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1883, from un- (1) "not" + hygenic .

Usage examples of unhygienic.

With all of their noisy devotion to the age of science, their hysterically technological jargon, their cyclotrons, their sound rays, these men were moved forward, not by the image of an industrial skyline, but by the vision of that form of existence which the industrialists had swept away—the vision of a fat, unhygienic rajah of India, with vacant eyes staring in indolent stupor out of stagnant layers of flesh, with nothing to do but run precious gems through his fingers and, once in a while, stick a knife into the body of a starved, toil-dazed, germeaten creature, as a claim to a few grains of the creature's rice, then claim it from hundreds of millions of such creatures and thus let the rice grains gather into gems.