Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
insanitary
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
insanitary/unhygenic conditions (=dirty)
▪ Diseases spread quickly among people living in insanitary conditions.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Amnesty claims the prisoners are being kept in overcrowded and insanitary conditions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A monumental granite drinking fountain towered up, with battered, insanitary metal cups hanging from it by chains.
▪ About 10,000 of them live in camps, where insanitary conditions and malnutrition are becoming more and more commonplace.
▪ All four are still suffering ill-health due to torture, poor diet and insanitary prison conditions.
▪ Furthermore, it was only during this period that scientific advance identified the main links between insanitary conditions and disease.
▪ The elementary school buildings are out of date and some are insanitary ....
▪ Therefore puppies housed after weaning in insanitary surroundings are at greatest risk from this vice.
▪ They must have contracted them from bacteria transported from the teeming insanitary slums on the other side of town.
▪ They therefore attracted labour without any hindrance, providing jerry-built, damp and insanitary hovels for letting to local farm workers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Insanitary
Insanitary \In*san"i*ta*ry\, a. Not sanitary; unhealthy; unsanitary; as, insanitary conditions of drainage.
Wiktionary
insanitary
a. Of or pertaining to a lack of sanitation; unsanitary, dirty, unhealthy.
WordNet
insanitary
adj. not sanitary or healthful; "unsanitary open sewers"; "grim and unsanitary conditions" [syn: unsanitary, unhealthful] [ant: sanitary]
Usage examples of "insanitary".
Parasites and skin diseases, vicious habits and insanitary practices have been spread, as if in a passion of equalitarian propaganda, the slums of such centres as Glasgow, London and Liverpool, throughout the length and breadth of the land.
At this point are the waterworks, erected recently with modern machinery, to take the place of the insanitary wells on which the town had been dependent.