insanitaryin‧san‧i‧ta‧ry /ɪnˈsænətəri $ -teri/ adjective 
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Thesaurus- Amnesty claims the prisoners are being kept in overcrowded and insanitary conditions.
- A monumental granite drinking fountain towered up, with battered, insanitary metal cups hanging from it by chains.
- About 10,000 of them live in camps, where insanitary conditions and malnutrition are becoming more and more commonplace.
- All four are still suffering ill-health due to torture, poor diet and insanitary prison conditions.
- Furthermore, it was only during this period that scientific advance identified the main links between insanitary conditions and disease.
- The elementary school buildings are out of date and some are insanitary ...
- Therefore puppies housed after weaning in insanitary surroundings are at greatest risk from this vice.
- They must have contracted them from bacteria transported from the teeming insanitary slums on the other side of town.
- They therefore attracted labour without any hindrance, providing jerry-built, damp and insanitary hovels for letting to local farm workers.
THESAURUS► dirty
Collocations not clean: · His clothes were untidy and he had dirty hands.
► filthy very dirty: · Each year filthy water causes millions of cases of illness.
► muddy covered with mud: · It had been raining hard and the path was muddy.
► dusty covered with dust: · the dusty shelves in the attic
► greasy covered with oil or grease: · Greasy food is bad for your health.
► grubby (also mucky British English) informal fairly dirty and needing to be cleaned or washed: · He was wearing a grubby white T-shirt.· mucky fingers
► grimy covered with thick dirt or dirt that has been there a long time: · I couldn’t see much out of the grimy windows of the train.
► dingy looking dark, dirty, and unpleasant. Used about rooms, houses, and buildings: · We worked in a dingy little office behind the station.
► polluted used about land, water, or air that has been made dirty: · 85% of city dwellers breathe heavily polluted air.
► contaminated made dirty by a dangerous substance or bacteria: · The virus is mainly spread through contaminated food.
► squalid formal extremely dirty and unpleasant. Used about the place or conditions in which someone lives: · People are living in squalid conditions, with little water and no sanitation.
► unhygienic formal used about dirty conditions that are likely to cause disease, especially conditions in kitchens, restaurants, and hospitals: · The food was prepared under unhygienic conditions.
► unsanitary (also insanitary British English) formal used about dirty conditions that are likely to cause disease, especially because there is not a good system for getting rid of waste: · People’s health is being threatened by overcrowded and insanitary homes.· They work for long hours in unsanitary conditions.
► soiled formal made dirty, especially by waste from your body: · Soiled nappies should be changed as quickly as possible.
Longman Language Activatordirty and bad for your health► unhygienic likely to cause disease - use this about dirty conditions in kitchens, restaurants, and hospitals: · It is unhygienic to store raw meat at that temperature.· Hospital cleaners were criticized for the unhygienic conditions of the central kitchens.
► polluted water or air that is polluted has a lot of harmful waste or poisonous chemicals in it: · Sayers said that if he's elected his administration will make a priority of cleaning up the region's polluted rivers.· Central London is the most polluted spot in Britain.polluted with/by: · Large parts of the Mediterranean are still polluted with toxic waste.heavily polluted (=very badly polluted): · The air was heavily polluted with exhaust fumes.
► contaminated food, water, or land that is contaminated is not safe to use or be in because dangerous chemicals or bacteria have come into it: · contaminated drinking watercontaminated with/by: · Several people became ill after eating hamburger meat contaminated with the E.coli bacteria.heavily contaminated (=very badly contaminated): · The soil around the plant is heavily contaminated.
► insanitary insanitary conditions are dirty and likely to cause disease, especially because there is no effective way of getting rid of waste: · Amnesty claims the prisoners are being kept in overcrowded and insanitary conditions.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES► insanitary/unhygienic conditions
insanitary conditions or places are very dirty and likely to cause disease SYN unsanitary American English► see thesaurus at dirty (=dirty)· Diseases spread quickly among people living in insanitary conditions.