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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unhygienic
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 unhygienic method.
▪ Conversely, conditions in deaf institutions and asylums were often grim and unhygienic.
▪ The unhygienic conditions of a stable were a breeding ground for all manner of disease and bacteria hazardous to a newborn.
▪ There were whole families who were infected, and transmission of the disease was facilitated by unhygienic conditions.
▪ Trains and telephones broke down, cities and highways were grubby and unhygienic.
▪ We even use pipettes: so unhygienic.
▪ With respect to unhygienic conditions, cells are too often soiled by their inmates.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unhygienic

1883, from un- (1) "not" + hygenic.

Wiktionary
unhygienic

a. Lacking hygiene, unclean.

WordNet
unhygienic

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

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.