unhygienic
Example Sentences
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The conditions are as unhygienic as can be imagined in a subterranean tunnel with no light, air, running water or sanitation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2025
The relief camps are unhygienic and there’s never enough space or food, Ali said, and “sometimes we get only rice and salt for days.”
From Seattle Times • May 21, 2024
In many Western cultures, snakes are perceived as being unhygienic and dangerous enough to completely warrant avoiding their consumption.
From Salon • Apr. 1, 2024
Taras Kachka, Ukraine's trade representative and a deputy economy minister, said drivers were being forced to endure days of freezing temperatures and unhygienic conditions.
From Reuters • Nov. 23, 2023
Moreover, most people in agricultural and industrial societies lived in dense, unhygienic permanent settlements—ideal hotbeds for disease.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
