[
UK
/ɪnsˈænɪtəɹi/
]
ADJECTIVE
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not sanitary or healthful
grim and unsanitary conditions
unsanitary open sewers
How To Use insanitary In A Sentence
- In South East Asia, it means tackling insanitary, overcrowded living conditions, installing clean water and sewage systems, and proper public hygiene regimes.
- The sale of so many houses which were purpose-built to provide homes for those who could not pay market rents and the increase in rentals have left people of all ages living in overcrowded and often insanitary conditions.
- The death rate in the insanitary towns was so high, especially among children, that they could not have flourished without this steady inflow of man and woman power.
- In the slums and in the earthquake survivor camps of Port-au-Prince, people live in crowded insanitary conditions where the disease can spread quickly.
- The temporary living accommodation was inadequate and insanitary, so that half the workers preferred to commute from Detroit.
- (Yes, insanitary is a word, even though right now Microsoft Word doesn’t believe it.) Water heaters
- Trench foot is an infection of the feet caused by wet and insanitary conditions.
- In the great, insanitary cities of newly industrializing Europe and America, opportunities for infection were legion.
- Diseases from insanitary drinking water killed thousands each year.
- British prisons remain disgracefully crowded and insanitary.