adjective
definition
Lacking hygiene; unclean.
Examples of unhygienic in a Sentence
Removal from the hot climate and unhygienic surroundings must naturally be attended to.
Trachoma is a disease associated with poverty and unhygienic conditions.
These imperfections will harbor germs leading to a very unhygienic work surface.
There are the usual malarial, bilious and intermittent fevers, and liver, stomach and intestinal complaints prevalent in tropical countries; but unhygienic living is, in Cuba as elsewhere, mainly responsible for their existence.
Most female circumcisions are performed under unhygienic conditions using primitive, homemade implement such as rusty razor blades and thorns.
The place became an asylum for lepers and the caring for them began to be a charity under government charge in 1866; but conditions here were at first unspeakably unhygienic, their improvement being largely due to Father Damien, who devoted himself to this work in 1873.
By the time a child is crawling and learning to walk, pacifiers are both unhygienic and limiting.
Not to mention the dreadful unhygienic mess that nesting rooks can cause and the difficulty of removing the nests once established!
The operation is intensely painful, typically performed without anesthesia, in unhygienic conditions with razor blades, knives or even broken glass.
Not to mention the dreadful unhygienic mess that nesting rooks can cause and the difficulty of removing the nests once established !