insalubrity

  • 31sickliness — n. Unhealthiness, insalubrity …

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  • 32insalubrious — /ɪnsəˈlubriəs/ (say insuh loohbreeuhs) adjective 1. unfavourable to health. 2. unsavoury; squalid: the more insalubrious suburbs of Melbourne. –insalubriously, adverb –insalubrity, noun …

  • 33noxious — Hurtful; offensive; offensive to the smell. The word noxious includes the complex idea both of insalubrity and offensiveness. That which causes or tends to cause injury, especially to health or morals …

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  • 34noxious — Hurtful; offensive; offensive to the smell. The word noxious includes the complex idea both of insalubrity and offensiveness. That which causes or tends to cause injury, especially to health or morals …

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  • 35a peck of March dust is worth a king’s ransom — The month of March is traditionally wet and blustery. A peck in former times was a dry measure of two gallons. Thomas Fuller, discussing this saying in his Worthies of England (1662, p. 87), links the ‘king’s ransom’ to the £100,000 raised in… …

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  • 36insalubrious — [in΄sə lo͞o′brē əs] adj. [< L insalubris + OUS] not salubrious; not healthful; unwholesome insalubrity [in΄sə lo͞obrə tē] n …

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  • 37insalubrious — adj. (of a climate or place) unhealthy. Derivatives: insalubrity n. Etymology: L insalubris (as IN (1), SALUBRIOUS) …

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  • 38salubriousness — noun the quality of being salubrious and invigorating • Syn: ↑salubrity • Ant: ↑insalubriousness, ↑insalubrity (for: ↑salubrity) • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …

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  • 39salubrity — noun the quality of being salubrious and invigorating • Syn: ↑salubriousness • Ant: ↑insalubriousness (for: ↑salubriousness), ↑insalubrity • Derivationally related forms: ↑ …

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  • 40unhealthfulness — noun the quality of promoting poor health • Ant: ↑healthfulness • Derivationally related forms: ↑unhealthful • Hypernyms: ↑unwholesomeness, ↑morbidness, ↑morbidity …

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