insalubrious
adjective
unfavorable to health; unwholesome.
insalubrity
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a word derived from
insalubrious.
Example Sentences
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People slept next to piles of clothes that lay next to bags of trash, the situation too chaotic to sort out, a ticking time bomb of insalubrity and desperation.
From Slate ● Nov. 30, 2018
It would be the same with the Agro Romano, if moral causes did not step in to prevent the efforts and industry of man, from here, as elsewhere, correcting the insalubrity of uncultivated nature.
From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 by Various
The Italian peasant had ever had a hard fight with the insalubrity of his soil.
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge
Sicily was in affluence and prosperity, while the adjoining plains of Italy were entirely laid out in pasturage, or returned to a state of desolation and insalubrity.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 by Various
While she lay at Batavia, the season was extremely unhealthy, and some of her people fell victims to the well-known insalubrity of the climate.
