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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
unsanitary
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After an unsafe and unsanitary procedure, Rosie developed a raging infection.
▪ They alleged unsanitary conditions, lack of food and water, and insufficient cage space.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unsanitary

1871, from un- (1) "not" + sanitary (adj.).

Wiktionary
unsanitary

a. unhealthy; dirty.

WordNet
unsanitary

adj. not sanitary or healthful; "unsanitary open sewers"; "grim and unsanitary conditions" [syn: insanitary, unhealthful] [ant: sanitary]

Usage examples of "unsanitary".

Second - when the plague has finally been contained, arrangements should be made over a ten-year period for the gradual rehousing of blacks in areas where their unsanitary personal habits do not threaten decent Americans.

The medicine they carried, mostly tetracycline and metronidazole for dysentery contracted from eating spoiled food and from unsanitary living conditions, would give away their true purpose, for people in Babylon who had the mark and had taken the communion had no need for such medicines.

And here we see the effects of malnutrition and the effects of overcrowded, unsanitary shantytowns and overfilled garbage dumps and we see thin, ribby, curly-tailed dogs digging on heaps of decomposing rubbish on which children play and pick and shit.

The yetis perpetually unsanitary fur was clotted with foetid lumps of food that had somehow failed to make the journey to his mouth without mishap.

Pleading a suddenly unsanitary camp site, Fabius has picked himself and his two legions up and moved to a new camp site not far from Bibracte, on the Icauna near its sources, in case you need to know.

Here the problems were the lack of medical supplies and working medical equipment, inadequate or unstable energy supplies, contaminated water, inadequate sanitation, inadequate transportation, and unsanitary medical conditions.

Second - when the plague has finally been contained, arrangements should be made over a ten-year period for the gradual rehousing of blacks in areas where their unsanitary personal habits do not threaten decent Americans.

Ingram's insistence on proper personal hygiene, courtly manners, and impeccable dress for all his employees and his emphasis on cleanliness in the Castles were purposely designed to counter the stereotype of slovenly fry cooks preparing food in greasy and unsanitary conditions.

The friend's stable had to be reached through a back street where you might as easily have been poisoned without expense of drugs as in any grim street of that unsanitary period.