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  • adjective Lacking hygiene, unclean.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective unclean and constituting a likely cause of disease

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Examples

  • Physicians at LaSalle Hospital have launched an online campaign to denounce what they call the unhygienic state of their emergency rooms.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

  • Physicians at LaSalle Hospital have launched an online campaign to denounce what they call the unhygienic state of their emergency rooms.

    CBC | Top Stories News 2011

  • That may be true; but it is hard to realize the danger of infection in one's own home, wherever it may be; and even those who live under what we might call unhygienic conditions are no more conscious of the danger in their own homes than you are in yours.

    Have We No Rights? A frank discussion of the "rights" of missionaries Mabel Williamson

  • Instead, on the eve of the opening ceremony Sunday, setbacks such as unhygienic accommodations and collapsing structures have triggered accusations of corruption and ineptitude.

    On eve of Commonwealth Games, India's persistent red tape is in spotlight Rama Lakshmi 2010

  • Instead, on the eve of the opening ceremony Sunday, setbacks such as unhygienic accommodations and collapsing structures have triggered accusations of corruption and ineptitude.

    On eve of Commonwealth Games, India's persistent red tape is in spotlight Rama Lakshmi 2010

  • It proposes that hospitals be given the right to retain children they suspected were being abused, and the banning of harmful cultural practices such as unhygienic circumcision.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • They were also unhappy about being served "unhygienic" and non-halaal food, being locked up too many hours a day and not getting sufficient medical treatment, according to newspaper reports.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • This follows a string of long-standing complaints from MPs about the lack of water dispensers in the Parliamentary complex, forcing them to drink "unhygienic" water collected from the taps in the bathrooms.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • I had a date there once and they accused her of being "unhygienic" because she sat cross-legged on the chair.

    blogTO 2009

  • But do not make those of us who are not cut sound as if we are "unhygienic".

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

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