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UK
/ʌnhaɪdʒˈiːnɪk/
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ADJECTIVE
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unclean and constituting a likely cause of disease
pathetic dogs kept in small unhygienic cages
How To Use unhygienic In A Sentence
- There are gaps between the new and the old tiles that will be difficult to clean and therefore unhygienic.
- Gruesome and downright unhygienic as the use of such objects now seems, it may be surmised that in the twenty-first century it will be thought equally unpleasant that the best wigs and toupees of the 1960s were made of human hair.
- And lastly, a tight foreskin is unhygienic and leads to the accumulation of a foul-smelling cheesy material (called smegma) underneath it. Rediff.com
- Parts of the shop were very dirty, unhygienic, and an ideal breeding ground for bacteria.
- Why did it have to be the audit commission that lambasted hospitals for being filthy and unhygienic?
- The disgusting smell of the medicine was drowned out by the stench of the cell, being as unhygienic as it was.
- The training seminar was aimed at informing beauticians on the importance of cleanliness and customer service to prevent the possibility of communicable diseases that could be contracted by unhygienic conditions.
- At present most of the island's septage is simply dumped on vacant land and such activity not only poses a threat to the environment, but public health as well, it is at worst unsafe and unhygienic.
- 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
- Large number of families are crammed in galis in most unhygienic conditions.