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Unsanitary   /ənsˈænətˌɛri/   Listen
Unsanitary

adjective
1.
Not sanitary or healthful.  Synonyms: insanitary, unhealthful.  "Grim and unsanitary conditions"






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"Unsanitary" Quotes from Famous Books



... little "town" itself was very pleasing to the eye, and certainly a haven of refuge for soldiers whose bodies and minds needed only repose, care, and kind words to send them back to the Front sounder by far than they had been in their unsanitary days before ...
— The Living Present • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

... home life become more difficult and, for many, impossible. The residents gradually group themselves in districts corresponding to their economic incomes, and the poorer parts of the population become tenement dwellers in the neighborhood of factories or become segregated in "slum" districts of unsanitary ...
— Modern Economic Problems - Economics Vol. II • Frank Albert Fetter

... the doctor tempered his disapproval. It was an unsanitary practice, but he had to admit that the patient was much improved. Kessler verified the state of Bolden's health by extensive use of the X-ray microscope. Reluctantly he wheeled the machine to the ...
— Bolden's Pets • F. L. Wallace

... a venal voter, but more often he is only an ignorant voter, who, while innocently following the man that has taken the trouble to do him a favor or to be socially agreeable to him, is handicapping himself and his children with dirty streets, an unsanitary home, an overcrowded school, an insufficient water supply, {21} blackmailing officials, and all those other abuses of city government which press with peculiar hardship upon the poor. The question of municipal reform is inextricably connected ...
— Friendly Visiting among the Poor - A Handbook for Charity Workers • Mary Ellen Richmond

... dugout life of the Germans, they have in the main kept to the open. Trench life is anything but pleasant, yet it is infinitely more conducive to confidence, courage, and enthusiasm than the rat-like existence of the Germans in foul-smelling, ill-lighted, unsanitary burrows far beneath the surface of the ground. Few men can remain for month after month in such a place and retain their optimism and their self-respect. One of the German dugouts which I saw on ...
— Italy at War and the Allies in the West • E. Alexander Powell

... the rules they were flogged like galley slaves. Women were flogged as well as men. What the lash and the labour left undone tuberculosis finished. Unsanitary conditions, rotten sheds, sent many of them into eternity, where ...
— From the Bottom Up - The Life Story of Alexander Irvine • Alexander Irvine

... in Benares is very high. Under ordinary circumstances it is higher than that of other cities of India because of its crowded and unsanitary condition, and because all forms of contagious diseases are brought by pilgrims who come here themselves to die. As I have already told you, it is the highest and holiest aspiration of a pious Hindu to end his days within an area encircled by what is known as the Panch-Kos Road, which ...
— Modern India • William Eleroy Curtis

... wage-earner of New York is much handicapped by her poor physical condition; heredity, poor habits of life, and unsanitary homes show their effects upon her. The girls who come to the school are young enough to remedy many of their defects. In a few months they will be in positions demanding eight or more hours a day, in which they must strain every nerve and ...
— The Making of a Trade School • Mary Schenck Woolman



Words linked to "Unsanitary" :   insanitary, unhealthful, unhygienic, sanitary, unsanitariness



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