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Definition of insalubrious:
Synonyms:
hurtful, unhealthy, deleterious, mischievous, insanitary, sickly, harmful, destructive, ruinous, bad, pestiferous, noisome, perverting, baneful, unsalutary, unwholesome, pestilential, health, pernicious, evil, detrimental, unhealthful, injurious.
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dirty (part of speech: verb)
- messy
- unhealthy (part of speech: adjective)
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unclean (part of speech: adjective)
- grungy,
- septic,
- filthy,
- fetid,
- scatological,
- defiled,
- muddy,
- foul,
- mucky,
- odious,
- unclean,
- shabby,
- sordid,
- grubby,
- infectious,
- icky,
- squalid,
- grimy,
- unhygenic,
- smutty,
- scruffy,
- untidy,
- festering,
- dusty,
- disgusting,
- sloppy,
- putrid,
- dirty,
- unsanitary,
- impure,
- crummy,
- slovenly,
- murky,
- offensive,
- obscene,
- toxic,
- dingy
Usage examples:
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But now, since the worthy clergyman who had undertaken my parochial duties has found the air insalubrious, and prays me not to enforce the engagement by which we had exchanged our several charges for the space of a calendar year, I am reluctantly compelled to return home,- my dear wife, thank Heaven, being already restored to health, which is an unspeakable mercy; and I am sure I cannot be sufficiently grateful to Providence, which has not only provided me with a liberal independence of more than 200 pounds a year, but the best of wives and the most dutiful of children,- possessions that I venture to call " the riches of the heart."
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The neighborhood of the rice- fields is possibly less pestilential in Lombardy and Piedmont than in South Carolina and Georgia, but still very insalubrious to both man and beast.
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His complexion is dark and sallow, betokening, I fear, an insalubrious atmosphere around the White House; he has thick black eyebrows and impending brow; his nose is large, and the lines about his mouth are very strongly denned.