Synonyms for unhygienic


Grammar : Adj
Spell : hahy-jee-en-ik, hahy-jen-, -jee-nik
Phonetic Transcription : ˌhaɪ dʒiˈɛn ɪk, haɪˈdʒɛn-, -ˈdʒi nɪk

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Définition of unhygienic

Origin :
  • 1883, from un- (1) "not" + hygenic.
  • As in unsanitary : adj dirty, unclean
  • As in uncleanly : adj dirty
  • As in dirty : adj soiled, unclean
Example sentences :
  • The material cannot be cleaned, and as a collector of dust is most unhygienic.
  • Extract from : « The Story of Silk » by Sara Ware Bassett
  • The time had been when she would at once have denounced the room as overcrowded and unhygienic.
  • Extract from : « Gray youth » by Oliver Onions
  • Diphtheria is not directly caused by unhygienic surroundings.
  • Extract from : « Essays In Pastoral Medicine » by Austin Malley
  • You—you don't think it will be unhygienic for him to sleep with me?
  • Extract from : « Adventures of Bindle » by Herbert George Jenkins
  • It is not ideal if it is unethical, unhygienic, or unæsthetic.
  • Extract from : « Sex-education » by Maurice Alpheus Bigelow
  • And Dorothy could well afford it, if one might judge of her fortune from her unhygienic but expensive dresses.
  • Extract from : « Gray youth » by Oliver Onions
  • Tears are as little known among the first-class beings of Thule as is the gross and unhygienic kiss.
  • Extract from : « The New Gulliver and Other Stories » by Barry Pain
  • These unsanitary and unhygienic conditions have dwarfed the tropical dwellers in body and in mind.
  • Extract from : « The Popular Science Monthly, September, 1900 » by Various
  • Folding beds and lounges even of the best type are unhygienic, usually too low for the patient's comfort, and often insecure.
  • Extract from : « American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick » by Jane A. Delano
  • One morning, for all he knows, it may come from a model dairy farm, and the next from the most unhygienic surroundings imaginable.
  • Extract from : « Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, September 1899 » by Various

Antonyms for unhygienic

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